About Doing the Right Thing as an Academic Economist
Erwin Dekker and Arjo Klamer
This chapter argues that the art of phronesis is central to doing the right thing as an economist. Phronesis, or practical wisdom, is what we practice when we deliberate, weigh values, take ...
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Access and Use of Contraception and Its Effects on Women’s Outcomes in the United States
Martha J. Bailey and Jason M. Lindo
Changes in childbearing affect almost every aspect of human existence. Over the last fifty years, American women have experienced dramatic changes in the ease and convenience of timing and ...
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Accomplishing State Budget Policy and Process Reforms
Iris J. Lav
This article tackles the issue of comprehensive state budget reform. With structural deficits rampant, reform is needed to maintain the current level of programs that states and localities ...
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Accounting Transparency and International Standard Setting
Sidney J. Gray and Helen Kang
This chapter explores accounting transparency as an important aspect of corporate accountability. After defining accounting transparency and identifying factors that influence it, the ...
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Achieving Fiscal Sustainability for State and Local Governments
Robert B. Ward
Over the last decade, observers of state and local finances have been alarmed over an emerging picture of long-term, structural imbalances. This article examines the concept of fiscal ...
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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 the Study of Ethics in a Commercial Society
Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr
Over time, the fields of economics and ethics have become more distinct with economics focusing on the rationality of actors, the incentives they face, and the outcomes of interacting ...
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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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