The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith
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Propriety and Prosperity: Coming Soon
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How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
Russ Roberts’ latest getting some high-profile press, and endorsed by some top-notch names including the redoubtable Nassim Taleb. Here is an extended interview with Reason. On this general approach to Smith see this forthcoming collection. Adam Smith, didn’t think the pursuit of wealth was a very good idea, thought it was corrosive, thought it was bad…
Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith
Now that the ms has been shipped off to the publisher here is the finalized lineup: Foreword — Vernon Smith Adam Smith as a Scottish Philosopher — Gordon Graham Friendship in Commercial Society Revisited: Adam Smith on Commercial Friendship — Spyridon Tegos Adam Smith and French Political Economy: Parallels and Differences — Laurent Dobuzinskis Adam Smith: 18th Century…
Rummaging around in Adam Smith’s brain
Here’s an interview with Jack Weinstein whose Adam Smith’s Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments will be the subject of an upcoming symposium for Cosmos + Taxis. Also, Jack is contributing to my Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith scheduled to appear this year. Adam SmithJack WeinsteinTheory of Moral SentimentsWealth of…
Adam Smith’s Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments
My chum Jack Weinstein’s book that I trailed some six months ago is garnering some amazing press coverage — amazing not only because it’s an academic philosophy book — but because it’s on Adam Smith and in the LA Times — and certainly not the Adam Smith of the ideologues or their “anti-liberty” vulgarian counterparts.…
Erasing the Invisible Hand
I’m just about finished reading this unrelenting and fine-grained assault on the concept of the invisible hand. This is one of the most remarkable pieces of scholarship I’ve read in many years whatever its flaws. Samuel is terrier-like with a rag doll! No doubt this book is going to upset many ideologues – and so…
Adam Smith @ Edinburgh’s Fringe
Adam Smith Le Grand Tour (H/T to Gavin Kennedy for this, who by the way is contributing to my edited Propriety and Prosperity). Adam Smithinvisible handLiberalismSocial SciencesSpontaneous orderTheory of Moral SentimentsWealth of Nations
Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith
It is unlikely that the Adam Smith “problem” in all its manifestations could be definitively resolved and this is certainly not the line this book is promoting. What’s on offer here is a fresh critical take on the two works looked at from recent developments within philosophy – philosophy of social science, philosophy of mind,…
Reclaiming Adam Smith
I came across the FT article by Sen (see below). In this vein see also Sen’s Adam Smith and the Contemporary World: This paper argues that many of Adam Smith’s insights, particularly those in his Theory of moral sentiments, have a relevance to contemporary thought about economics and ethics that is currently underappreciated. In economics, for…
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