Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
Hanging with History
62. Adam Smith Part 1; Einstein, Newton, God and Poverty
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 62
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Adam Smith and his world view. Emerson said every writer needs a tough chaos deep soil. What was Adam Smith’s? We introduce the key elements of that world view and spend a fair amount of time introducing you to the idea that the ferocious Calvinism of the Presbyterian Scots was on the wane and a new God arose in its place. Far more important than the atheism of the Enlightenment was the new loving God that elbowed Calvin’s more logical one aside.
Some people just love Adam Smith. Why? We give you a reason. The next episodes will supply many more.
The Fizz Spider episode.