Adam Smith on Workers' Productivity / Adam Smith y la productividad de los trabajadores
Adam Smith on Productivity / Adam Smith y la productividad
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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
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Nov 302 min read
Adam Smith and the regulation of banks / Adam Smith y la regulación de los bancos
Adam Smith and the regulation of banks / Adam Smith y la regulación de los bancos
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Nov 283 min read
Adam Smith on those who live by profit / Adam Smith sobre los que viven de la ganancia
Adam Smith on those who live by profit / Adam Smith sobre los que viven de la ganancia
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Nov 212 min read
Adam Smith and the welfare of workers / Adam Smith y el bienestar de los trabajadores
Adam Smith and the welfare of workers / Adam Smith y el bienestar de los trabajadores
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jijorquera
Nov 173 min read
Exploring Adam Smith's Views on High Profits / Explorando los puntos de vista de Adam Smith sobre los altos beneficios
Exploring Adam Smith's Views on High Profits / Explorando los puntos de vista de Adam Smith sobre los altos beneficios
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jijorquera
Mar 1420 min read
Plastics: We can't live with them; we can't live without them.
This post will try to dig a little deeper into the role plastic plays in our society, its advantages and disadvantages.
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jijorquera
Nov 3, 202312 min read
Future (III): Our dreams will finally come home to stay
Out of the unrelenting application of reason, and the acceptance of what we truly are, our dreams will finally come home to stay
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jijorquera
Jul 7, 20238 min read
Biodiversity loss (VII), Anthropocene or Eremocene
We humans are predators. We target more than a third of the vertebrate species.
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jijorquera
Feb 17, 202312 min read
Climate Emergency: Why? - Emergencia climática: ¿Por qué?
Seventy thousand years ago Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the...
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jijorquera
Feb 10, 20239 min read
Human Overpopulation - Sobrepoblación humana
In the post Evolution Carries on (II) I introduced the Haber-Bosch reaction, which was discovered in the early years of the twentieth...
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jijorquera
Feb 3, 20235 min read
Evolution carries on (II) Adaptation, ingenuity & population growth - La evolución continúa (II)
Adaptación, ingenio y crecimiento poblacional Not all human adaptations to the environment stem from its radical modification by our...
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jijorquera
Jan 27, 20238 min read
Evolution carries on / La evolución continúa
Our ancestors developed the ability to transform the environment in their favor hundreds of thousands of years ago. This characteristic...
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jijorquera
Jan 24, 20237 min read
Religion (VI) Enlightenment and Science / Religión (VI) Ilustración y ciencia
Contrary to the religiously ordained bonfires that threatened and burned so many people because they tried to draw knowledge from nature...
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Jan 20, 20236 min read
Religion (V) and Economy / Religión (V) y economía
One of the less considered aspects of religion is its influence on the economy. Religions created important networks of solidarity and...
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jijorquera
Jan 17, 202311 min read
Religion (IV): Essential Functions – II / Religión (IV): Funciones esenciales - II
The previous post defined the main essential functions of religion (1): 1) Explanation; 2) Appeasement of anxiety; 3) Consolation; 4)...
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jijorquera
Jan 13, 20238 min read
Religion (III): Essential Functions - I / Religión (III): Funciones esenciales - I
In previous posts on religion we have reviewed the evolutionary justification of religion as well as the “religious Darwinism” or...
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Jan 10, 20235 min read
Religion (II) and Darwinism / Religión (II) y darwinismo
Geographer and historian Jared Diamond defines religion as a set of characteristics that distinguish a human social group that shares...
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Jan 5, 202311 min read
Religion: Evolutionary justification / Religión: Justificación evolutiva
Totem / Tótem Our schizophrenic societies progress by knowledge but survive on inspiration derived from the very beliefs which that...
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Dec 30, 202215 min read
Societies (VI): Progress, Inequality, Revolutions / Sociedades (VI): progreso, desigualdad...
Today over 56% of humanity—about 4.5 billion out of 8 billion individuals habiting our planet—live in cities, according to the U.N. While...
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Dec 22, 20224 min read
Societies (V): First civilizations -Gilgamesh/ Sociedades (V) Primeras civilizaciones -Gilgamesh
Many characteristics of modern societies were already observed when the first chiefdoms consolidated into states. These attributes...
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