Adam Smith famously used a pin factory to illustrate the advantages of specialization, choosing this "very trifling manufacture" because the different tasks were performed under one roof: "One man ...

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SHELTON — Demolition was slated to begin Monday on the remains of the historic Star Pin building off Canal Street, the scene of a massive fire Saturday night. Firefighters have remained on-site for ...

ECONOMISTS, the worldly philosophers, do not on the whole live up to that tag. They are familiar enough with the economy as it exists in equations and official statistics, but are fair strangers to ...