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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... claim that free markets need no government help to find the “natural price” that enables as much of a commodity to be produced as there is demand for. So the whole of Book I is implicitly directed against mercantilist arguments (and, to ...
... claims of the entire book—that the division of labor, far more than natural resources, is primarily responsible for increases in economic production. How is this important claim defended? We are given an example, supposedly drawn from ...
... claim to have discovered any new economic facts or forces—nor did he do so, if Schumpeter is right—nor to have found, like an economic Newton, fundamental mathematical laws for all economic systems. Rather, he arranges fairly familiar ...
... claims and arguments in its own way. One who truly understands and trusts the workings of common sense will neither criti- cize nor praise it in the light of some “further” philosophical perspective—a perspective that, ex hypothesi ...
... claims that government policy is capable of either supporting or eliminating such fears. Elsewhere, he claims that the advantages of free trade are “so mani- fest” that no-one would ever have questioned that policy “had not the ...
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