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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... considers a better paradigm of the division of labor: the many independent trades that are needed to make a laborer's coat. Why is the initial example there at all? Because it was the standard example for writers before Smith, and ...
... (consider the use of “real price” at WN 205–9, 219, 236, or 253–5). And chapter vii lays out the basic argument that Smith will use many times later on for the claim that free markets need no government help to find the “natural price ...
... considers essential both to good science and to good moral philosophy, rather than giving us a substantial body of evidence or deriv- ing his conclusion from general laws or principles. He will proceed to do some of both in the ensuing ...
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9780691123905_5CH4 | 59 |
9780691123905_6CH5 | 84 |
9780691123905_7CH6 | 104 |
9780691123905_8CH7 | 121 |
9780691123905_9CH8 | 143 |
9780691123905_10CH9 | 174 |
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9780691123905_13CON | 259 |
9780691123905_14NOT | 283 |
9780691123905_15IND | 313 |
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