Propriety and Prosperity [electronic resource] : New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith /
Hardwick, D.editor.
Marsh, L.editor.
This book is a collection of specially commissioned chapters from philosophers, economists, and political scientists, focusing on Adam Smith's two main works Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations with a view to bringing Smith to a mainstream philosophy audience while simultaneously informing Smith's traditional constituency.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Epistemology not Ideology; Part I: Context; 2 A dam Smith as a Scottish Philosopher; 3 Friendship in Commercial Society Revisited: Adam Smith on Commercial Friendship; 4 Adam Smith and French Political Economy: Parallels and Differences; 5 Adam Smith: Eighteenth-Century Polymath; Part II: Propriety; 6 Indulgent Sympathy and the Impartial Spectator; 7 Adam Smith on Sensory Perception: A Sympathetic Account
8 Adam Smith on Sympathy: From Self-Interest to Empathy9 What My Dog Can Do: On the Effect of The Wealth of Nations I.ii.2; Part III: Prosperity; 10 Metaphor Made Manifest: Taking Seriously Smith's 'Invisible Hand'; 11 The 'Invisible Hand' Phenomenon in Economics; 12 Instincts and the Invisible Order: The Possibility of Progress; 13 Two Invisible Hands: Family, Markets, and the Adam Smith Problem; 14 Smith, Justice, and the Scope of the Political; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is a collection of specially commissioned chapters from philosophers, economists, and political scientists, focusing on Adam Smith's two main works Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations with a view to bringing Smith to a mainstream philosophy audience while simultaneously informing Smith's traditional constituency.
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
Economic history.
Economic theory.
Philosophy.
History of Economic Thought/Methodology.
Economic History.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
History of Philosophy.