Adam Smith and Early-Modern Thought
Christopher J. Berry
Using Smith’s own references to thinkers he identifies as significant pioneers, the chapter presents a synoptic and necessarily gross-grained selective survey. It pays particular attention to the ...
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Adam Smith and Marx
Spencer Pack
This chapter outlines Marx’s general attitude towards Smith. It argues that Marx was a close reader of and that he generally admired Smith’s work. The chapter outlines how Marx criticizes various ...
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Adam Smith and Rousseau: Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment
Dennis C. Rasmussen
Adam Smith was arguably the first great Enlightenment thinker to offer a thorough and considered response to the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the first great Counter-Enlightenment thinker. As ...
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Adam Smith and Self-Interest
Eugene Heath
The concepts of self-interest and self-love feature prominently in both and . Various notions of self-preservation, self-interest, and self-love are distinguished, and it is shown how self-love ...
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Adam Smith and the Law
Fabrizio Simon
This chapter examines Adam Smith’s reflection on the Law in his main works. Particular attention is paid to the difference between Smith’s thought and the Juridical Enlightenment. Smithian ...
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Adam Smith and The Limits of Sympathy
Duncan Kelly
Adam Smith’s work on moral sentiments is part of his much wider project of a science of man. And his most developed account of sympathy and sociability, provided in , actually provides the central ...
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Adam Smith and the New Right
Craig Smith
Adam Smith’s fame as the ‘founder’ of economics has led to him being claimed as an inspiration by many subsequent thinkers. This chapter examines the claims of a particular group of thinkers who have ...
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Adam Smith and the State: Language and Reform
David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart
This chapter focuses on the role of temporal scarcity and language in reform. These are linked because language lies at the foundation of Smith’s account of a society in which the scarcity of time ...
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Adam Smith and Virtue
Ryan Patrick Hanley
Thanks to several recent studies, we now understand better than ever the place that virtue has in Smith’s larger economic and political system, the sources on which he drew in developing his theory ...
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Adam Smith As Critic
James Chandler
Though not best known for his work in criticism, Smith spent much of his later life on a major treatise on the ‘imitative arts’, which may have included the ‘Essay on the Imitative Arts’, ...
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Adam Smith on Civility and Civil Society
Richard Boyd
Adam Smith is often cited as one of the intellectual forefathers of the concept of civil society. Although there is undeniable truth to this characterization, this chapter seeks to illuminate the ...
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Adam Smith on Empire and International Relations
Edwin Van De Haar
International affairs were a main concern for Smith, yet his views on this topic are largely overlooked or misinterpreted. As a result, the academic literature still contains many erroneous ...
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Adam Smith on Equality
Samuel Fleischacker
This chapter surveys recent literature arguing for and against the view that Smith was deeply egalitarian, and then examines both the elements of Smith’s texts that lend support to such a view, and ...
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Adam Smith on Labour and Capital
Tony Aspromourgos
In its most fundamental, constructive parts devoted to descriptive theory, is first and foremost an account of the causes of economic growth and development. Smith’s theory of economic development ...
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Adam Smith On Language and Rhetoric: The Ethics of Style, Character, and Propriety
C. Jan Swearingen
An examination of Smith’s and as complementary to one another and as refinements in earlier eighteenth-century revisions of rhetorical theory and moral philosophy. Smith’s scientific approach to ...
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Adam Smith on Money, Banking, and the Price Level
Hugh Rockoff
Adam Smith paid considerable attention to the problems of money, banking, and the price level in . Smith favoured private ownership and competition in banking, but he also favoured several legal ...
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Adam Smith on Religion
Gavin Kennedy
This chapter discusses the relevance of Smith’s biography and his published writings, in , , and his posthumous (1795), and discerns a hidden Adam Smith, contrary to his public religiosity. His ...
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Adam Smith on Value and Prices
Nerio Naldi
This chapter considers the evolution of the way Smith presented his analysis of value and prices from the to and its importance to understand the structure that that analysis assumes in , where it ...
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Adam Smith on Women
Maureen Harkin
Women are largely absent from the economic system Smith lays out in . This account of women in Smith thus focuses primarily on analysis of and its discussion of women as subjects and objects of ...
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Adam Smith's Aesthetics
Catherine Labio
This chapter surveys Smith’s complete works and addresses three distinct but related questions: (1) What are the main thrusts of his writings on art and literature? (2) Did aesthetic thinking help ...
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