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
64. Adam Smith Pt.3; The Theory of Moral Sentiments; What kind of monkeys are we?
June 11, 2021
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 64
Why do humans behave decently towards each other?
Adam Smith doesn't do evolutionary biology, but his insights, on how we wish to love and be loved and what's more we wish to be lovely are timeless and deep. The corresponding notions of how we wish to avoid giving offense and how we have a horror of blameworthiness...a horror we don't really face.
The Conversations with Camie is longer than usual and I get into some of the various Big Theories on the origins of the Industrial Revolution, and how Adam Smith is the most important person in the universe in some of them, if they are true.