Blog update: July 2026

It’s that time of year again! I have returned from my travels in Costa Rica because this week (July 20-23) I will be attending the annual conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB), which will be meeting in downtown Minneapolis. (The conference will take place at “The Depot”, a historic hotel and former train station (pictured below) in the Mill District of downtown Minneapolis, where I will be staying until the end of this week.) I will therefore resume — and conclude! — my multi-part review of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet, Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, next week (July 27-31). In the meantime, I will be meeting with friends and colleagues as well as presenting two of my forthcoming papers at the ALSB: “Buchanan v. Samuels: The Cedar Rust Case Redux” (on Tuesday, July 21) and “Stoic Capitalism? Adam Smith versus Marcus Aurelius” (on Wednesday, July 22). View…