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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... interest versus “General Benevolence” 23. Self-interest as an Assumption in WN 24. Smith and Hobbes: A Response to Cropsey xi xiii xv 12 15 19 27 27 31 34 36 44 46 46 48 55 61 61 66 70 72 80 82 84 84 87 90 95 97 100 CHAPTER SIX Vanity ...
... interests are above all in the arguments Smith gives for his views, and that I sometimes reconstruct his arguments in modern terms, and argue with him when it seems to me that he holds a problematic view. I hope to stimulate questions ...
... interest of butchers and bakers. In addition, Smith was well aware of the uses of rhetoric, and his seeming straightforwardness does not preclude him from making use of a variety of literary devices, either for polemical purposes or to ...
... interest is higher than in their own, are circumstances which no doubt demonstrate the redundancy of their own stock, or that it has increased beyond what they can employ with tolerable profit in the proper business of their own country ...
... interests us in the punishment of crimes committed against individuals” (TMS 89). Yet even here, in the midst of his refutation, he throws in another concession, granting that the execution of soldiers for dereliction of duty is carried ...
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