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A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise Capitalism
I mentioned this a while back. Adam SmithcapitalismCarl WennerlindDavid HumeEconomicsMargaret Schabaspolitical economyScottish Enlightenmentscottish philosophy
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Symposium on Jesse Norman’s Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters
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Vernon Smith @ 93
A belated happy birthday to Vernon. Adam SmithconstructivismDaniel KahnemanEconomicsNobel Prizesituated cognitionVernon L. Smith
Smith, Justice, and the Scope of the Political
There was a time when many commentators thought that there was a problem with Adam Smith. The tendency to read Smith’s thought as marred by supposed tensions between the ‘sympathy’ of The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) and the ‘selfishness’ of The Wealth of Nations (WN) has long since been debunked. Smith scholars are coming…
Two Invisible Hands: Family, Markets, and the Adam Smith Problem
Smith scholarship is split on whether the apparent conflict between self-interest in the Wealth of Nations (WN) and sympathy in the Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) indicates an intractable problem or is merely the result of a misunderstanding of Smith’s overall system. This chapter is written as a response both to the believers in das…
Instincts and the Invisible Order: The Possibility of Progress
The invisible hand means a variety of things to modern writers, who use the phrase loosely to imply the market, the price system, efficiency, laissez-faire, greed is good, and so on (Samuels et. al., 2011; Medema, 2009; Rothschild, 1994). In some circles the invisible hand is referred to with reverence and in others with mockery.…
The ‘Invisible Hand’ Phenomenon in Philosophy and Economics
This chapter discusses Adam Smith’s rhetorical use of the ‘invisible hand’ in the context of his teachings on metaphors as figures of speech in his lectures on Rhetoric (Edinburgh, 1748-51; Glasgow, 1752-64 (LRBL). After Smith died (1790), a strikingly long-period of silence about his three references to an ‘invisible hand’ followed until 1875, when traces…
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