On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical CompanionPrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 352 páginas Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet until now there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Wealth of Nations. Samuel Fleischacker suggests that Smith's vastly influential treatise on economics can be better understood if placed in the light of his epistemology, philosophy of science, and moral theory. He lays out the relevance of these aspects of Smith's thought to specific themes in the Wealth of Nations, arguing, among other things, that Smith regards social science as an extension of common sense rather than as a discipline to be approached mathematically, that he has moral as well as pragmatic reasons for approving of capitalism, and that he has an unusually strong belief in human equality that leads him to anticipate, if not quite endorse, the modern doctrine of distributive justice. |
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... appear, in both scholarly and popular literature, by way of striking snippets. One can properly grasp its teachings, however, only by engaging in the painstaking exercise of reading the long, elaborate arguments from which the snippets ...
... appears to every body, but the man who feels it, entirely disproportioned to the value of the object,” and that “though a lover may be good company to his mistress, he is so to nobody else” (TMS 31). Is this simply supposed to describe ...
... appears evidently from experience that a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported” (WN 92). There are also moments that partake of the ambiguity between irony and plain description entailed by Smith's general ...
... appears to be a publick enemy”—before going on to argue that on the whole a nation can never be “much affected either by the prodigality or misconduct of individuals” (WN 340–41). But the initial warning against prodigality tends to get ...
... appear explic- itly only in Books IV and V, so one might suppose that WN, to the extent that it is a tract, becomes one after it has first laid out a neutral portrait of the facts about how economies work. It is unclear that this is ...
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9780691123905_5CH4 | 59 |
9780691123905_6CH5 | 84 |
9780691123905_7CH6 | 104 |
9780691123905_8CH7 | 121 |
9780691123905_9CH8 | 143 |
9780691123905_10CH9 | 174 |
9780691123905_11CH10 | 203 |
9780691123905_12CH11 | 227 |
9780691123905_13CON | 259 |
9780691123905_14NOT | 283 |
9780691123905_15IND | 313 |
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