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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... Natural Price/Market Price Real Price/Nominal Price; Labor Theory of Value The Long Term versus the Short; Growth versus Allocation; Definition of Wealth Productive and Unproductive Labor The Invisible Hand PART IV Justice CHAPTER EIGHT ...
... natural tendencies as a “piece of teasing, double-edged scepticism” (SL 81), and that description captures Smith's stance toward natural human impulses throughout his work. On the one hand, he sees some of them as foolish or dangerous ...
... naturally and commonly”—is not there solely for rhythmic effect. By giving us two words, Smith encourages us to think ... natural consequences of the law of primogeniture. They were introduced to preserve a certain lineal succession, of ...
... naturally” increase their production of goods (parts I and II) to an explanation of why European history has not followed this natural course (part III), to a diagnosis and refutation of other views about how produc- tion works (part IV) ...
... natural philosophy or what today we call “science”—as “inventions of the imagination.” Smith also, in that essay, and in a brief passage at the beginning of WN, characterizes speculative or philo- sophical thought as a matter of “observ ...
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9780691123905_15IND | 313 |
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