Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic ScienceCambridge University Press, 2003 M09 4 - 279 páginas Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, was the triumph of the 'selfish hypothesis' (the idea that self-interest is the motive of human action). Yet, as a neo-Epicurean idea, this hypothesis had been a matter of controversy for over a century and Smith opposed it from a neo-Stoic point of view. But how can the Epicurean principles of orthodox economic theory be reconciled with the Stoic principles of Adam Smith's philosophy? Pierre Force shows how Smith's theory refutes the 'selfish hypothesis' and integrates it at the same time. He also explains how Smith appropriated Rousseau's 'republican' critique of modern commercial society, and makes the case that the autonomy of economic science is an unintended consequence of Smith's 'republican' principles. |
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... Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith , vol . 2 , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1976 [ London : Strahan and Cadell , 1776 ] , v.i.g.2 . 3 The Wealth of ...
... Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith , vol . 2 , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1976 [ London : Strahan and Cadell , 1776 ] , v.i.g.2 . 3 The Wealth of ...
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... nature , ou des lois du monde physique et du monde moral , Geneva : Slatkine Reprints , 1973 ( 2 vols . ) [ London , 1770 ] , 1 , XV , p . 312 . 8 Adam Smith , An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , The Glasgow ...
... nature , ou des lois du monde physique et du monde moral , Geneva : Slatkine Reprints , 1973 ( 2 vols . ) [ London , 1770 ] , 1 , XV , p . 312 . 8 Adam Smith , An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , The Glasgow ...
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... nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter. All attempts of this kind have hitherto proved fruitless, and seem to have proceeded entirely, from that love of simplicity, which has been the ...
... nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter. All attempts of this kind have hitherto proved fruitless, and seem to have proceeded entirely, from that love of simplicity, which has been the ...
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... nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the ...
... nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the ...
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... natural virtues : Mandeville sensed very well that even with all their morality men would never have been anything but monsters if Nature had not given them pity in support of reason ; but he did not see that from this quality alone ...
... natural virtues : Mandeville sensed very well that even with all their morality men would never have been anything but monsters if Nature had not given them pity in support of reason ; but he did not see that from this quality alone ...
Contenido
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2 Epicurean vs Stoic schemes | 48 |
3 Selfinterest and reason | 91 |
4 Passions interests and society | 135 |
5 Interested and disinterested commerce | 169 |
6 Selfinterest and the public good | 205 |
Conclusion | 256 |
Bibliography | 264 |
Index | 276 |
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