Discussed at V&R Chapter 3 are the basic principles of Catholic Social Thought (CST), including the moral principle of subsidiarity. Don Quijote is a Japanese retail chain whose business plan is built on each shop having subsidiarity (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-17/the-cult-japanese-retailer-making-billions-breaking-all-the-rules). All hiring and management is local to ensure that the shops act like barometers to tastes…
A recent opinion piece at BoF argues that rapidification is necessary to bridge the gap between sluggish production and intensified consumer expectation: “Speed, tightly and newly coupled with data science, enables opportunity across each tier and partner of the supply chain” (https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/opinion/op-ed-fashion-needs-a-new-business-model-speed-is-the-answer). V&R Chapter 2 discusses Pope Francis’s critique of this ideology of technoscience…
The moral and political character of Smith’s thinking, and thus the meaning of the Scottish Enlightenment, is increasingly contested. My latest at Law & Liberty: Anxious Trade
For those in the Baltimore area, I hope you might join us Monday, April 15th at 6pm in the Auditorium of the Loyola/Notre Dame Library. Dr. Brian Murray of our Writing Department will discuss “Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Catholic?” Film clips are included and his talk is followed by Q&A. The lecture is sponsored…
This is a super article (https://www.ft.com/content/a27249e4-507c-11e9-9c76-bf4a0ce37d49). It is behind a pay wall but I read it for free on Twitter. If you go searching, the title is the same as this blogpost, but without the reference to Scheler. V&R Chapter 5 explores the moral attributes of the estate, a model for business offered by…
Just came across this excellent video on the cultural and political significance of clothes, and especially jeans. It’s a video hosted by the brilliant and prolific Scots historian, Niall Ferguson. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXqSm3TWrI&t=9s
Hope you enjoy my new reflection, “Smith’s Scientific Milestones”: https://www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings
Hope you enjoy my latest at Law & Liberty: https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/03/22/john-gray-separates-the-atheist-wheat-from-the-chaff/
There is no chapter on Caillois at V&R but blog readers will have seen his name plenty. I have just finished reading his unusual 1970 The Writing of Stones. It’s a thin, beautiful volume, published in English by UVA in 1985. Long out of print in English, copies run $700! It’s a shame, as few…
Scotsman Niall Ferguson is one of the most famous living historians and his TV programme Empire can be found on youtube. Each episode is full of interesting stuff. The first includes a segment where Ferguson argues that the impetus for empire began with the British lust for clothes from India. At the time, India…