The two-hundredth anniversary in 1976 of the publication ofAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsemphasized the already evident new interest in the relationship between ...Smith's social and political thought and his economic theory. Only recently have economists turned their attention to Smith's other works, long overshadowed by the more renownedThe Wealth of Nations. Martha Lightwood here argues thatA Theory of Moral Sentimentsactually laid the philosophic groundwork forThe Wealth of Nationsand emphasizes that Smith's writings, considered in their totality, represent a compelling interest not solely in economics but in philosophy and the study of society.
Selected for this bibliography are major contributions and representative studies on three aspects of Smith's work: moral philosophy, the history of the development of scientific methodology, and political economy.
In conversations surrounding technology and the future of politics, Adam Smith is a valuable resource for evaluating the subtle relationship between technology and freedom. Smith explores the ...tendency of specialization occasioned by the advancement of machines to cause “mental mutilation” where the worker’s human faculties are stunted through overspecialization or narrowing of scope of opportunities to judge. Smith’s treatment of the development of sympathetic judgment as necessary to the practice of liberty illuminates the depth of the harms caused by this mutilation; it is the very freedom of the worker that is at stake when the development and the exercise of judgment are restricted. Taken together, Smith’s discussion of the advancement of machines and free and independent judgment can aid contemporary thinkers in understanding the relationship between technology and freedom in commercial society, particularly if new technologies substitute for the judgment of the worker or prevent the development of their judgment.
Este artículo busca establecer un diálogo entre la obra de Adam Smith y el Neoliberalismo en sus múltiples aspectos: su obra escrita; su tratamiento de otros pensadores y sus obras; y su forma de ...gobernar. Aquí se argumenta que Adam Smith ha sido copiado por el pensamiento neoliberal para promover ideas que son todo lo contrario de las favorecidas por Smith. Sus citas más famosas se malinterpretan deliberadamente, dado que su significado explícito en el texto es que toda la actividad humana está determinada por "poderes divinos", lo cual es un anatema para el pensamiento neoliberal, que eleva el dinero y los mercados al reino de lo divino. Los textos de Smith no solo sirven como evidencia de las formas engañosas del neoliberalismo, sino que también ofrecen advertencias proféticas de cómo tanto la religión como la ciencia pueden ser capturadas por las autoridades y distorsionadas a su voluntad.
El presente artículo interprets la obra de Adam Smith a partir de la retórica. Basándose en el análisis comparative de los textos, afirma la dependencia de la Historic de la Astronomía con respecto a ...las Lecciones sobre retórica y, con ello, la naturaleza retórica del uso smithiano de la ciencia. Tras analizar las metáforas utilizadas por Smith, deja de lado la metáfora gravitacional y la de la mano invisible y se centra en las basadas en el teatro y en la analogía con la máquina. De esto concluye que Smith recurrió al potencial constructive de la retórica para superar el escepticismo humeano, lo cual, a su vez, tiene consecuencias sobre nuestra comprensión de la historia de la retórica.
The present investigation determines if the credit granted by the Private Banks of Ecuador influenced in any way With the commercial sector and shrimp exportation in Ecuador for the period 2005-2016. ...To verify this relationship, a data collection was carried out From oficial web sites such as the Superintendencia de Bancos, Trade Map and Banco Central del Ecuador, which served as the basis for the realization of several econometric tests such as Autoregressive Vector Models, Granger's Causality Test, Unit Root Test, among others. Obtaining as a result the non-existent relationship between the amounts of credits granted and Export levels for the period 2005-2016, this means that the role of the banking within The shrimp sector exportation does not play an important role, however, the export sector it is totally independent with respect to banking. La presente investigación determina si el crédito otorgado por los Bancos Privados del Ecuador influyó de alguna forma sobre el sector de comercialización y exportación de camarón en el Ecuador para el periodo 2005-2016. Para comprobar dicha relación se realizó una recolección de datos en páginas oficiales como la Súper Intendencia de Bancos, Trade Map y Banco Central del Ecuador los cuales sirvieron de base para la realización de varios test econométricos como Modelos De Vectores Autorregresivos, Prueba de Causalidad de Granger, Prueba de Raiz Unitaria, entre otros. Obteniendo como resultado la inexistente relación entre los montos de créditos otorgados y los niveles de exportación para el periodo 2005-2016, esto significa que el papel de la banca dentro del sector exportador de camarón no juega un rol importante sino por el contrario el sector exportador es totalmente independiente con respecto a la banca.
Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge divides, to unite humankind. But how do we square this with the popular view that we can never truly comprehend the experience of being ...someone else? In this book, Samuel Fleischacker delves into the work of Adam Smith to draw out an understanding of empathy that respects both personal difference and shared humanity.After laying out a range of meanings for the concept of empathy, Fleischacker proposes that what Smith called "sympathy" is very much what we today consider empathy. Smith's version has remarkable value, as his empathy calls for entering into the perspective of another—a uniquely human feat that connects people while still allowing them to define their own distinctive standpoints. After discussing Smith's views in relation to more recent empirical and philosophical studies, Fleischacker shows how turning back to Smith promises to enrich, clarify, and advance our current debates about the meaning and uses of empathy.
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships-and how it influenced modern thought
David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during ...his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were best friends for most of their adult lives, sharing what Dennis Rasmussen calls the greatest of all philosophical friendships.The Infidel and the Professoris the first book to tell the fascinating story of the friendship of these towering Enlightenment thinkers-and how it influenced their world-changing ideas.
The book follows Hume and Smith's relationship from their first meeting in 1749 until Hume's death in 1776. It describes how they commented on each other's writings, supported each other's careers and literary ambitions, and advised each other on personal matters, most notably after Hume's quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Members of a vibrant intellectual scene in Enlightenment Scotland, Hume and Smith made many of the same friends (and enemies), joined the same clubs, and were interested in many of the same subjects well beyond philosophy and economics-from psychology and history to politics and Britain's conflict with the American colonies. The book reveals that Smith's private religious views were considerably closer to Hume's public ones than is usually believed. It also shows that Hume contributed more to economics-and Smith contributed more to philosophy-than is generally recognized.
Vividly written,The Infidel and the Professoris a compelling account of a great friendship that had great consequences for modern thought.
A propos de l'ouvrage de Jean Cartelier, Ľintrus et l'absent. Essai sur le travail et le salariat dans la théorie économique Can a wage economy be blended into a market economy? On Jean Cartelier's ...Ľintrus et l'absent. Essai sur le travail et le salariat dans la théorie économique
Paganelli determines whether markets corrupt our morals. She argues that the problem lies in the interpretation of who constitutes "our". Markets do corrupt a set of morals present in non-commercial ...societies. But markets replace those morals with a different set of morals. So, it is not that markets crowd out virtues, leaving a vacuum, but that markets substitute a set of virtues with another set of virtues. In this sense, markets both corrupt morals and help us become moral. Both statements are correct, because "our morals" may not be a fixed set of morals, but different sets of morals.
