122 Results for “ADAM SMITH”
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We Owe an Apology to Adam Smith
Jun 7, 2023
Smith did not advocate a single-minded pursuit of profit
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Working Paper
Conference paperOn Adam Smith
Oct 2017
Given that this is a panel on that quintessential Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith, I can think of no better way to begin my remarks than to invoke that most enlightened of modern economists, Kenneth Boulding, who in 1971 penned the delightful essay, “After Samuelson, Who Needs Adam Smith?”
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Conference Session
Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
Oct 21, 2017 |
Adam Smith and his contemporaries were key figures of the Scottish enlightenment. How much of his real thought survives in modern economics, and has something important been lost?
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Working Paper
Conference paperAdam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment, and ‘realistic’ Philosophy
Oct 2017
Adam Smith’s modern fame as the founding father of economics has, until relatively recently, obscured the fact that he saw himself as a moral philosopher.
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UK Budget Appeals to Adam Smith's Approach to Taxes... Sort of
Mar 22, 2012
Yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer (or UK ‘finance minister’) gave his annual budget speech where UK fiscal policy is set for the coming years.
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Adam Smith's first - and last! - book: what rational choice?
Oct 18, 2014
I was going to call this blog post ‘Utility maximising agents in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments’ but realised that was much too dull - even if it accurately describes my bedtime reading at the present moment.
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Fixing The Financial System: Adam Smith Vs. Jeremy Bentham
Jun 9, 2015
How do we create a “change in culture”?
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How God, Adam Smith, and the invisible hand changes over time
Jan 5, 2012
So with a suitably provocative title I think we can declare 2012 open.
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How God, Adam Smith, and the invisible hand changes over time
Jan 5, 2012
So with a suitably provocative title I think we can declare 2012 open.
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Video
Teaching Economics the Adam Smith Way
Jun 6, 2018
The economist had to learn moral philosophy before anything else—an underpinning that’s still helpful for today’s students
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Craig Smith
Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in the Scottish Enlightenment, University of Glasgow -
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What Idea Shapes Our World More Than Adam Smith’s Economics?
Oct 20, 2017
Animal rights, child welfare, social equality are all a direct legacy of the “cult of feeling”
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Was Adam Smith a communist?
Jun 22, 2011
In his two-tome, 1400 page Dutch Leerboek der Staathuishoudkunde (Textbook of Economics), first published in 1884, Nicolaas Pierson (1839 - 1909) accuses the great Scotsman of being a communist – or at least of consciously clearing the way for the socialists with their ideal of a communist society.
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Person
Robert McMaster
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Article
Division of labour was common knowledge by the 1770s
Jun 23, 2012
I always think of Adam Smith when I hear the term ‘division of labour’ - but I’m being cured of this by reading a bit more about Britains late 18th century in Jenny Uglow’s The Lunar Men.