As promised a month ago, the Adam Smith reading starts Monday. I was late, myself, to buy the books, so I only discovered a few days ago that the editions I mentioned before — Modern Library for [book: Wealth of Nations], Great Minds for [book: Theory of Moral Sentiments] — are hard to come by. They don’t look hard to come by on Amazon, but my favorite bookseller — from which I buy all my books, if I can help it — tell me that it would be hard for you fine people to find them in your own favorite local retailers.
So. What I have here next to me is the University of Chicago Press edition, which is a reprint of the apparently canonical Cannan edition. This one is unabridged, five books long, and about 1200 pages.
I hope this new edition doesn’t screw people up. I was aiming for unabridged editions before, and this is an unabridged edition. So whatever edition you have won’t be too far from what I have.
I’ve got my best people at the Harvard Book Store working ’round the clock to find me the proper edition of [book: Theory of Moral Sentiments]. When I have that one in hand, I’ll mention it here as well. But we have our hands full with [book: Wealth of Nations] for a little while.
Okie dokey! I went and bought the editions you originally recommended, but I’m sure it’ll be fine as long as we cite by chapter, rather than page number. I started reading today and got three chapters in. Fun stuff!
So, what’s the plan, boss? Are you going to stick up a post for everyone to pile in on in the comments, or should I just write a blog post on my own blog or . . . ?
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Excellent question! I say you blog it up on your end, and I blog it up on mine, and we comment the HELL out of each other’s posts.
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Turns out it’s easier for me to get the Modern Library edition than the U. of C. one. So I’ll be with Chris on this.
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Just finished the first three chaps as well. Not sure I have a blog post in me yet. And is that Paul guy joining us in the end?
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I’ve read the first two as of this morning. I’m at one of those periodic times in my life when I’m busy most of the day and exhausted the rest, so tearing through books isn’t quite as easy as I’d like. But this one turns out to be quite readable. I’m excited.
I’ll blog about the first three chapters soon. Hopefully tonight.
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I finished chapter five the other day. I hope the rest of the book is more like chapters one through four.
Will blog as soon as I can, but am also exhausted.
Also, I maybe talked a smart friend at work into joining us.
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Just before the ASBC began, I was asked by a senior colleague to do a group read of Paul Starr’s The Social Transformation of American Medicine. I could not say no. (No, literally, I could not say no.) So that’s why I’ve been quiet. What’s your excuse?
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Life, man. You know how it is. I’m hoping to write my first post in the next couple days.
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My first post is half written. But yeah, life, man.
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Sounds great. Need to get started. Just stumbled upon this place.
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