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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... less respect than he did in TMS. Charles Griswold and David Marshall have drawn attention to Smith's de- clared fondness for the theater and suggested that TMS itself ought to be seen as in some measure a theatrical performance.11 ...
... less so as a treatise. With Smith, the judgment tends to be reversed. The mere length and comprehensive- ness of WN makes it read most obviously as a treatise, and it has been set aside summarily as too “theoretical,” by many ...
... less obvious when chapters I.viii, I.ix, and I.xi address themselves to the relationship between wages, profit, or rent and the overall wealth of a national economy. Given the way that chapters I.i–I.vii slowly develop the elements of ...
... less impor- tant than, his political interest in guaranteeing to ordinary individuals the “natu- ral liberty” of thought and action that he believes they rightly possess. Even if we set aside the ways in which Smith's writing is more ...
... less unfirm to the degree to which they abstract from the detail of these cases.5 In TMS, Smith tells us that general moral rules are “founded upon expe- rience of what, in particular instances, our moral faculties . . . approve, or dis ...
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9780691123905_13CON | 259 |
9780691123905_14NOT | 283 |
9780691123905_15IND | 313 |
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