The Women of the Smith Questionnaire

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March 29, 2022


The Smith Questionnaire is a fun way to learn about Adam Smith and those who study and enjoy him.  As Women's History month wraps up, take 5-10 minutes to learn a little more from the women of the Smith Questionnaire.
Our most recent Smith Questionnaire is with Shannon Chamberlain. 
Shannon Chamberlain Smith Questionnaire - YouTube (12:47)
Tutor, St. John's College- Santa Fe, NM
Would Adam Smith rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck?
Neither! He'd put the 100 duck-sized horses to work stamping little pins with their little hooves.

Lynne Kiesling: The Smith Questionnaire 2020 - YouTube (13:56)
Visiting Professor, Engineering and Public Policy Director, Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at Carnegie Mellon University
@knowledgeprob
WN or TMS?
That's like asking chocolate or peanut butter! They're two great tastes that taste great together.

Jimena Hurtado: The Smith Questionnaire 2020 - YouTube (Spanish) (14:18)
Associate Professor of Political Science at Universidad de los Andes
@JimenaHurtado
What do you “pursue for pleasure that was once followed from necessity”? 
Read Adam Smith!

Michelle Vachris: The Smith Questionnaire 2020 - YouTube (6:59)
Professor of Management, Business, and Economics Chair of Business at Virginia Wesleyan University
What’s the best antidote (today) to the torpor induced by the division of labor? 
Participation in civil society. Something where you can interact with other people from perhaps different walks of life and more importantly you can exercise different parts of your brain.

Lauren Hall: The Smith Questionnaire 2020 - YouTube (8:35)
Associate Professor of Political Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
What is something that Smith is know for but that you are unimpressed by? 
This is going to probably annoy a lot of my economist friends but thinking of Adam Smith primarily as an economist really undermines the breadth and importance of his work as a whole.

Deirdre McCloskey: The Smith Questionnaire 2020 - YouTube (8:09)
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication, adjunct in classics and philosophy, at the University of Illinois at Chicago
@DeirdreMcClosk
If Adam Smith had a dog, what kind of dog would it be? 
West Highland Terrier

Sarah Burns: The Smith Questionnaire 2020 - YouTube (7:53)
Professor of Political Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Would you rather have a beer in a pub or champagne in a salon with Adam Smith? 
I would prefer the salon but think he would prefer the pub, so the pub.
 
Heather King: The Smith Questionnaire 2019 - YouTube (4:52)
Literature professor at the University of Redlands
Would you rather be loved or lovely?  
Honestly, even though Smith would be disappointed in me, loved.  

Tawni Ferrarini: The Smith Questionnaire 2019 - YouTube (6:46)
Robert W. Plaster Professor of Economic Education at Lindenwood University
@Tawni_Ferrarini
What does you impartial spectator look like? 
It's a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple spectator.

Stefanie Haeffele: The Smith Questionnaire 2019 - YouTube (3:40)
Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director of Academic and Student Programs and a senior fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
@sjhaeffele
What should people look at or listen to if they want to sympathize with you? 
Abstract art and Japanese Punk music.

Michelle Schwarze: The Smith Questionnaire 2019 - YouTube (5:01)
Smith scholar and Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
@maschwarze
If an afterlife exists, what would you want to discuss with Adam Smith when you get to meet him?  
Why he had his executor burn all his papers and this third treatise he was working on that was on Law and Government because I really wish he hadn't done that. 
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