Samuel G. B. Johnson

I supervise a lot of dissertations and find myself giving the same advice over and over again. I don’t mind doing this, but I thought that s

This past week marked the 200th publication anniversary of David Ricardo’s On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Despite...

There was that strange moment again today when we said goodbye. He was with me, and then, a moment later, he was not. My boyfriend still...

It is obvious why specialization improves productivity for manufactured goods (even if people seem to systematically underestimate just...

Economists have long known that a key source of society's wealth is the division of labor. Robinson Crusoe was marvelously...

Since I say I am a "cognitive scientist of markets," I damned well better have an answer to what this means. It's not quite behavioral...

The first book I am blogging is Adam Smith's masterpiece An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). Although...

I was reborn last week on the other side of the Atlantic. I've traveled before, even to London, but I have never lived outside of...

Things are changing fast. Last week, I moved to London. Next fall, I am starting as a faculty member (at the U.K.'s University of Bath)....