Smithian Essays
- “Adam Smith’s Benevolence Puzzle,” w/ Erik Matson, National Review, Jan 16 2023 (link).
- The Godly Path to Adam Smith’s Liberal Plan, Brownstone, Feb 8, 2023 (link).
- Essential Words in—and Not in—Adam Smith’s Essential Works by Caleb Petitt and Daniel B. Klein (6 Oct 2022): https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/petitt-klein-smith-words-great-works
- “Ronald Coase’s Fitting Tribute to Adam Smith,” Discourse (Mercatus Center), March 24, 2023 (link); republished Svensk Tidskrift 14 April 2023 (link).
- When Scottish Sages Christened ‘Liberal’ https://lawliberty.org/when-scottish-sages-christened-liberal/
- Collins’s Burke
- C.S. Lewis on Patriotism https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/02/c-s-lewis-patriotism-four-loves-daniel-klein.html
- Correcting Superiors from Below (28 May 2025): https://www.libertarianism.org/articles/correcting-superiors-below
- “Adam Smith and the Poor,” Religion and Liberty, Acton Institute 6 Nov 2023 (link).
- Adam Smith on Upside and Downside by Yahya Alshamy and Daniel B. Klein (24 January 2024): https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/alshamy-klein-smith-upside-downside
- Adam Smith and Angels with Dirty Faces by Daniel B. Klein and Ali Motamedi (24 April 2024): https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/adam-smith-and-angels-with-dirty-faces
- Pride and Vanity, After Adam Smith (27 November 2024): https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/klein-pride-vanity-after-adam-smith
- Looking for Love by Alice Zhang and Daniel B. Klein (22 January 2025): https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/zhang-klein-looking-for-love
- The Impartial Spectator Rises, by Daniel Klein, Nicholas Swanson, and Jeffrey T. Young, Econ Journal Watch 22(2), 2025.
- The Welfare State is Devoid of Generosity by Eric Hammer and Daniel B. Klein (26 June 2024): https://www.libertarianism.org/articles/welfare-state-devoid-generosity
- “Amazon’s Threefold Injustice,” Brownstone, 24 Oct 2024 (link).
- “Signs of Untruthfulness,” Brownstone, 16 Oct 2024 (link).
- Virtues Project for a Youngster. 3 May 2013, https://cafehayek.com/2013/05/dan-and-lotta-kleins-virtues-project.html
- Adam Smith and Propriety in Moral and Political Discourse
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3714070 - Civility and Civil Courage, Society
- “Does Winning High Office Signal Low Virtue?,” AIER The Daily Economy, 5 Nov 2024 (link).
- “Adam Smith’s Great Power Politics in One Paragraph,” AIER 1 Oct 2023 (link). Also published in The Beacon (Independent Institute), link, and elsewhere.
- “Adam Smith’s Sly American Proposal,” (that is the title as appeared in the print edition), July, Reason (link).
- “Adam Smith’s Hopes for a Liberal America,” by Michaela Loughran and Daniel B. Klein, Economic Affairs, 2025. Link
- ‘Liberal’ as a Political Adjective, 1769–1824, Journal of Contextual Economics–Schmollers Jahrbuch. Working paper published at Brownstone Institute (link).
- Why Lords Went for Luxuries: A Riff on Adam Smith, by Jacob Hall and Daniel Klein, The Independent Review, forthcoming.
- By the Same Author: Presenting Adam Smith’s Works as a Whole, by Daniel B. Klein and Caroline Breashears, Economic Affairs 42(3): 528–540. Link
- Cancel Culture Stalks Adam Smith, an Ardent Foe of Slavery https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/cancel-culture-stalks-adam-smith-an-ardent-foe-of-slavery/
- Adam Smith’s Unmerited Censure: Revisiting a Satirical 1764 Pamphlet on Slavery, with Kendra Asher, American Political Thought 11(1), Winter 2022: 48-72. Link
- “In Defence of Hate,” IEA blog, 6 Sept 2024. Link
- “Hate, What Is It Good For? A Smithian Perspective,” Panmure House podcast, interviewed by Adam Dixon. 30 August 2024. Link
- “Happy 300th, Adam Smith!,” AIER, June 16, 2023 (link).
- The Baby and the Bathwater, by Daniel Klein and Daniel Mahoney