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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Adam Smith"”.
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Adam Smith and the Consequences of Inequality
This is the first book-length study of Adam Smith’s thoughts on inequality. The scholarly literature on Smith is vast, but hitherto comparatively little has been written on this feature of his thought. The prevailing interpretation of Smith as a thinker primarily interested in the plight of the …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… much more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense examined with renewed care. David Hume, I argue, retains the veneer of a moral sense theory, while providing arguments able to challenge it severely. Only with Adam …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… much more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense examined with renewed care. David Hume, I argue, retains the veneer of a moral sense theory, while providing arguments able to challenge it severely. Only with Adam …
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Examining "The Adam Smith Problem": Individuals, Society, and Value
In this paper I offer an analysis of the Adam Smith Problem. This Problem arises from perceived inconsistencies between Smith's economic work, The Wealth of Nations, and his moral theory, the Theory of Moral Sentiments. I argue that far from being inconsistent with Smith's economic theory, his …
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Capital Without Capitalism: Adam Smith, Arrighi, and Cultural Political Economy
… not been resolved. Recently, Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing contributes to these debates by returning the conversation to the inheritance of classical political economy. Arrighi offers fresh readings of Adam Smith and Karl Marx to redefine capitalism and national development for the …
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<em>The Spectator</em>, Adam Smith, and the Evolution of Fictionality in Eighteenth-century England
… one of the century's most important works: Adam Smith's <em>Theory of Moral Sentiments</em> (1759). In regard to Smith's Theory, special attention is paid to the explicitly visual nature of his notion of sympathy, and how we can trace the framework for this notion back some forty years to …
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The Role of Technological Change in Economic Theory
… This thesis analyzes the economic theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, the neoclassical doctrine, and Joseph Schumpeter in their respective accounts of technological change. The theoretical frameworks of the different theories are critiqued in their ability to account for technological change. …
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The Morality fo Materiastic Self-Interest, The Corporation of the State
<p>Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 and The Wealth of Nations in 1776. In these treatises he juxtaposed the conflicting morality of benevolence experienced in a community of familiar individuals, with the morality of self-interest when …
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Kaldor's Late Contributions
… with increasing returns theory originated from Adam Smith and Allyn Young. Kaldor propagated the theory even though it was not mature. There were many controversies and critiques to Kaldor's increasing returns theory. Kaldor began to write extensively about this worldview scattered throughout …
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Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy
… century thinkers Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant defended the value of free markets. It reconstructs their defense of liberal economic reforms, including free trade (domestic and foreign) and the deregulation of markets in labor and land. Through this reconstruction, …
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The Road to Virtue and the Road to Fortune: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Problem of Individualism in Commercial Society
… Enlightenment--Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, and John Millar--confronted this problem. First, they questioned whether some aspects of individualism constitute genuine problems at all. For instance, their analysis of conspicuous consumption or luxury indicated that it …
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Beyond rationalist orthodoxy: towards a complex concept of the self in IPE
… In particular, I focus on the thought of Adam Smith, whose ideas are gaining interest in IPE owing to an increasing recognition of his seminal contribution to the subject field. I investigate the secondary debate on Smith, his influences, his distance from his peers in the Scottish …
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A Gentlemen's Benevolence: Symptoms of Class, Gender, and Social Change in Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, and The Mill on the Floss
… literary authors sought to navigate the “Adam Smith Problem" of sympathy vs. self-interest. Benevolence, in these novels, is not disinterested (regardless of their motivation) but is influenced by the character's and author's perception of class, gender, and social change in the nineteenth …
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Musica come Scienza dell'uomo. I caratteri del sapere musicale nel Settecento britannico
… Addison and Lord Shaftesbury, to Lord Kames and Adam Smith), and we will examine their thoughts on music. In the second one we will deal with musical sources (from the Treatise of Musick of Alexander Malcom, to the Histories of Music of Charles Burney and John Hawkins) in order to show their …
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La competitividad del sector construcción de El Salvador y de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en el marco del DR-CAFTA, 1990-2005.
… comparativa como el de ventaja absoluta de Adam Smith que incorpora elementos que vuelven el análisis más realista como lo es el cambio tecnológico. El economista Anwar Shaik y Diego Guerrero han analizado los aportes de Adam Smith, Karl Marx y Joseph Shumpeter, éste último reconoció el …
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Love and ecology as an integrative force for good and as resistance to the commodification of nature and planetary harms: Introducing Fluminism.
… a glove to fit the neoliberal ‘invisible hand’ (Adam Smith). Depersonalisation and reductionism persists as non-human nature is simply deemed utility to humans ~ Natural Resources ~ when in fact nature is an ever dynamic and complex matrix/flow, of individual lives and supporting elements, …
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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation
… the classical economists, dating back as far as Adam Smith and including a good many abolitionists, was that slavery was inefficient and therefore unprofitable. The contrasting position of the new economic historians, most closely identified with Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, is that slavery …
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‘Ye Olde Englishe Communists’: Popular Front Historians and the Left, 1936-1940
… British national myth, from Alfred the Great to Adam Smith, to support notion of a progressive and egalitarian lineage for modern Britons. In doing so, these ‘Popular Front historians’ also revealed the deep rooted Anglocentrism within both the British historical tradition and its socialist …
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