I’m going to be speaking in Santa Barbara on Thursday and Friday of this week (January 24 and 25). On Thursday, at 12:30, on the UC Santa Barbara campus, I’ll be delivering the Phi Beta Kappa Public Lecture, on “Why do—or did—economists read the ancient Greeks?” On Friday, at 10 am, I’ll be doing a workshop on my book-in-progress “King Capital.” You can get all the details for either of these events here. If you’re in the area, stop by and say hello. An excerpt from the talk: Through a close reading of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, I’ll show how two economists used the ancient Greeks to identify a different turn and possibility in the modern world. Not a […]