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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... Although Smith was a philosopher, no book of this sort has appeared before. Charles Griswold has given us a beautiful study of Smith's entire corpus from a philosophical perspective, and there is a careful and thorough examination.
... sort of natural resource, as the basis of wealth, and the second chapter shows, against the mercantilist conception of trade as a zero-sum game, that human beings mutually gain in trade. Chapter iii explains how the spread of trade ...
... sort of employment to another”), not because they reflect an exhaustive survey of history—come after the main work of getting us to see the impor- tance of the division of labor has already been done. The pin factory is one of the most ...
... sort of wisdom about what to expect from life, implying that the sort of philosophy that Descartes or Hume did is somehow “unreal” (“language on holiday,” as Wittgenstein would say) or contrasts the “refinement[s] of philosophy ...
... sort of problems that characteristically plague com- mon sense, not the sort of cognitive error characteristic of philosophers or sci- entific experts, such as a mistake in argumentation or ignorance of a crucial piece of empirical ...
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