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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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
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
Sep 22, 202311 min read
Progress (VII): Extreme Inequality is a Threat to Democracy
One of the reasons for the poor performance of democracies, even those most advanced and consolidated, is extreme inequality.
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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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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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jijorquera
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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Dec 16, 202210 min read
Societies (IV): Farming / Sociedades (IV): Agricultura
Primitive farmer / Granjero primitivo Agriculture began in many different parts of the world. It appeared first with the cultivation of...
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Dec 6, 20229 min read
Societies (II) and Myths / Sociedades (II) y mitos
Homo sapiens took cooperation to an unthinkable height, even for our most recent ancestors. Our ability to cooperate is, in part, what...
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Nov 25, 202210 min read
Human Societies / Sociedades humanas
I am as free as Nature first made man, ‘Ere the base Laws of Servitude began, When wild in woods the noble Savage ran. —John Dryden (1)...
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jijorquera
Nov 18, 202214 min read
Human Nature (III): The relativity theory and the dance of Macarena
Naturaleza humana (III): La teoría de la Relatividad y el baile de la Macarena James Cagney I've always maintained that in this business,...
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jijorquera
Nov 11, 20229 min read
Human Nature (II) / Naturaleza humana (II)
Spanish traineras / Traineras The superb cooperation capacity of our species is enhanced by morality and social norms, including...
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Nov 4, 20226 min read
Human Nature / Naturaleza humana
Fernando Merlo (1952 - 1981) Two knives are my chest, one white and the other black. Help me! The white one is dying. —Fernando Merlo,...
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