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Adam Smith’s Pragmatic Liberalism

Author : Lisa Hill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030193373
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Adam Smith’s Pragmatic Liberalism written by Lisa Hill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith is commonly conceived as either an economist or a moral philosopher so his importance as a political thinker has been somewhat neglected and, at times, even denied. This book reveals the integrated, deeply political project that lies at the heart of Smith’s thought, showing both the breadth and novelty of Smith’s approach to political thought. A key argument running through the book is that attempts to locate Smith on the left-right spectrum (however that was interpreted in the eighteenth century) are mistaken: his position was ultimately dictated by his social scientific and economic thought rather than by ideology or principle. Through examining Smith’s political interests and positions, this book reveals that apparent tensions in Smith's thought are generally a function of his willingness to abandon, not only proto-liberal principles, but even the principles of his own social science when the achievement of good outcomes was at stake. Despite the common perception, negative liberty was not the be-all and end-all for Smith; rather, welfare was his main concern and he should therefore be understood as a thinker just as interested in what we would now call positive liberty. The book will uniquely show that Smith’s approach was basically coherent, not muddled, ad hoc, or ‘full of slips’; in other words, that it is a system unified by his social science and his practical desire to maximise welfare.

The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society

Author : Dennis C. Rasmussen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271076046
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society written by Dennis C. Rasmussen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries about commercial society that Rousseau did and was strongly influenced by his critique. In this first book-length comparative study of these leading eighteenth-century thinkers, Dennis Rasmussen highlights Smith’s sympathy with Rousseau’s concerns and analyzes in depth the ways in which Smith crafted his arguments to defend commercial society against these charges. These arguments, Rasmussen emphasizes, were pragmatic in nature, not ideological: it was Smith’s view that, all things considered, commercial society offered more benefits than the alternatives. Just because of this pragmatic orientation, Smith’s approach can be useful to us in assessing the pros and cons of commercial society today and thus contributes to a debate that is too much dominated by both dogmatic critics and doctrinaire champions of our modern commercial society.

The Pragmatic Enlightenment

Author : Dennis C. Rasmussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107045002
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Pragmatic Enlightenment written by Dennis C. Rasmussen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the political and moral thought of the Enlightenment, focusing on four key eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen argues that these thinkers exemplify a particularly attractive type of liberalism, one that is more realistic, moderate, flexible, and contextually sensitive than most other branches of this tradition.

Adam Smith's System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue

Author : Athol Fitzgibbons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198289235
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Adam Smith's System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue written by Athol Fitzgibbons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the influence that Adam Smith's philosophy had on his economics, drawing on the neglected parts of Smith's writings to show that the political and economic theories built logically on his morals. It analyses the significance of his stoic beliefs, his notions of art and music, astronomy, philosophy and war, and shows that Smith's invisible hand was part of a 'system' that was meant to replace medieval Christianity with ethic of virtue in this world rather than the next. Smith was motivated primarily by a political ideal, a moral version of liberalism. He rejected the political philosophy of the Greeks and Christians as authoritarian and unworldly, but contrary to what many economists believe, he also rejected the amoral liberalism that was being advocated by his countryman and friend David Hume. Far from being myopic about self-love, Smith arrived at his theories of free trade, economic growth, and alienation via his reinterpretation of Stoic virtue. Of interest to economists, philosophers, political theorists, sociologists and lawyers concerned with jurisprudence, this book is clearly written, and its innovations reveal the hitherto hidden unity in Smith's overarching system of morals, politics and economics.

Adam Smith's Political Philosophy

Author : Craig Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134235879
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Adam Smith's Political Philosophy written by Craig Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Adam Smith published his celebrated writings on economics and moral philosophy he famously referred to the operation of an 'invisible hand'. Adam Smith’s Political Philosophy makes visible this hand by examining its significance in Smith’s political philosophy and relating it to similar concepts used by other philosophers, thus revealing a distinctive approach to social theory that stresses the importance of the unintended consequences of human action. The first book to examine the history of Smith’s political philosophy from this perspective, this work introduces greater conceptual clarity to the discussion of the invisible hand and the related notion of unintended order in the work of Smith, as well as in political theory more generally. By examining the application of spontaneous order ideas in the work of Smith, Hume, Hayek and Popper, this important volume traces similarities in approach, and from these constructs a conceptual, composite model of an invisible hand argument. While setting out a clear framework of the idea of spontaneous order, the book also builds the case for using this as an explanatory social theory, with chapters on its application in the fields of science, moral philosophy, law and government.

Adam Smith

Author : James R. Otteson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623565936
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Adam Smith written by James R. Otteson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was as a pioneer of political economy. In fact, his economic thought became the foundation of classical economics and his key work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is considered to be the first modern work in economics. For Smith, a free competition environment was the best way to foster economic development that would work in accordance with natural laws. The framework he set up to explain the free market remains true to this day.

Hume Occasional Paper No.9: Adam Smith and Economic Liberalism

Author : Andrew Skinner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781870482042
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Hume Occasional Paper No.9: Adam Smith and Economic Liberalism written by Andrew Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wealth of Nations

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603848622
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Wealth of Nations written by Adam Smith and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1993-11-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful new abridgment is enriched by the brilliant commentary which accompanies it. In it, Laurence Dickey argues that the Wealth of Nations contains--and conceals--a great deal of how Smith actually thought a commercial society works. Guided by his conviction that the so-called Adam Smith Problem--the relationship between ethics and economics in Smith's thinking--is a core element in the argument of the work itself, Dickey's commentary focuses on the devices Smith uses to ground his economics in broadly ethical and social categories. An unparalleled guide to an often difficult and perplexing work.

The Adam Smith Review: Volume 10

Author : Fonna Forman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351392859
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Adam Smith Review: Volume 10 written by Fonna Forman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith’s contribution to economics is well recognised, but scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a rigorously refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith’s works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings to the modern world. It is aimed at facilitating debate between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape. This tenth volume brings together leading scholars from across several disciplines, and offers a particular focus on Smith's continuing impact on the history of economics. There is also an emphasis throughout the volume on the relationship between Smith’s work and that of other key thinkers.

Wealth of Nations

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141888088
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Wealth of Nations written by Adam Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, this book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. It includes the author's assessment of the mercantile system, his advocacy of the freedom of commerce and industry, and his prophecy that America will be one of the foremost nations of the world.

Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy

Author : Jerry Evensky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139446770
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy written by Jerry Evensky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith is the best known among economists for his book, The Wealth of Nations, often viewed as the keystone of modern economic thought. For many he has become associated with a quasi-libertarian laissez-faire philosophy. Others, often heterodox economists and social philosophers, on the contrary, focus on Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, and explore his moral theory. There has been a long debate about the relationship or lack thereof between these, his two great works. This work treats these dimensions of Smith's work as elements in a seamless moral philosophical vision, demonstrating the integrated nature of these works and Smith's other writings. This book weaves Smith into a constructive critique of modern economic analysis (engaging along the way the work of Nobel Laureates Gary Becker, Amarty Sen, Douglass North, and James Buchanan) and builds bridges between that discourse and the other social sciences.

The Pragmatic Enlightenment

Author : Dennis Carl Rasmussen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107671874
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book The Pragmatic Enlightenment written by Dennis Carl Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls attention to the particular strand of the Enlightenment these thinkers represent, which he terms the 'pragmatic Enlightenment'. He defends this strand of Enlightenment thought against both the Enlightenment's critics and some of the more idealistic Enlightenment figures who tend to have more followers today, such as John Locke, Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham. Professor Rasmussen argues that Hume, Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire exemplify an especially attractive type of liberalism, one that is more realistic, moderate, flexible, and contextually sensitive than most other branches of this tradition--

Adam Smith and Rousseau

Author : Maria Pia Paganelli
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Scottish
ISBN 13 : 9781474452687
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Adam Smith and Rousseau written by Maria Pia Paganelli and published by Edinburgh Studies in Scottish. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at all aspects of the pivotal intellectual relationship between two key figures of the Enlightenment This collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau scholars to explore the key shared concerns of these two great thinkers in politics, philosophy, economics, history and literature. Rousseau (1712-78) and Smith (1723-90) are two of the foremost thinkers of the European Enlightenment. They both made seminal contributions to moral and political philosophy and shaped some of the key concepts of modern political economy. Among Smith's first published works was a letter to the Edinburgh Review where he discusses Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Smith continued to engage with Rousseau's work and to explore many shared themes such as sympathy, political economy, sentiment and inequality. Though we have no solid evidence that they met in person, we do know that they shared many friends and interlocutors. In particular, David Hume was Smith's closest intellectual associate and was also the one who arranged for Rousseau's stay in England in 1766.

The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society

Author : Dennis Carl Rasmussen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271033488
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society written by Dennis Carl Rasmussen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries about commercial society that Rousseau did and was strongly influenced by his critique. In this first book-length comparative study of these leading eighteenth-century thinkers, Dennis Rasmussen highlights Smith’s sympathy with Rousseau’s concerns and analyzes in depth the ways in which Smith crafted his arguments to defend commercial society against these charges. These arguments, Rasmussen emphasizes, were pragmatic in nature, not ideological: it was Smith’s view that, all things considered, commercial society offered more benefits than the alternatives. Just because of this pragmatic orientation, Smith’s approach can be useful to us in assessing the pros and cons of commercial society today and thus contributes to a debate that is too much dominated by both dogmatic critics and doctrinaire champions of our modern commercial society.

The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand

Author : Mittermaier, Karl
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 152921579X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand written by Mittermaier, Karl and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND Made famous by the Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith, the concept of an ‘invisible hand’ might be taken to imply that a government that governs least governs the best, from the viewpoint of society. Here an invisible hand appears to represent unfettered market forces. Drawing from this much-contested notion, Mittermaier indicates why such a view represents only one side of the story and distinguishes between what he calls pragmatic and dogmatic free marketeers. Published posthumously, with new contributions by Daniel Klein, Rod O’Donnell and Christopher Torr, this book outlines Mittermaier’s main thesis and his relevance for ongoing debates within economics, politics, sociology and philosophy.

Adam Smith

Author : Eric Schliesser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190690127
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Adam Smith written by Eric Schliesser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith was a famous economist and moral philosopher. This book treats Smith also as a systematic philosopher with a distinct epistemology, an original theory of the passions, and a surprising philosophy mind. The book argues that there is a close, moral connection between Smith's systematic thought and his policy recommendations.

Profits, Priests, and Princes

Author : Peter Minowitz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721660
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Profits, Priests, and Princes written by Peter Minowitz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In launching modern economics, Adam Smith paved the way for laissez-faire capitalism, Marxism, and contemporary social science. This book scrutinizes Smith's disparagement of politics and religion to illuminate the subtlety of his rhetoric, the depth of his thought, and the ultimate shortcomings of his project. The author analyzes Smith's ideas on government, justice, human psychology, and international relations, stressing Smith's efforts to elevate wealth at the expense of citizenship and to replace normative political philosophy with historical theorizing and empirical modeling that emphasize economic causes. The book also provides the most comprehensive interpretation available of Smith's views on religion, examining the discrepancies between The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments while demonstrating Smith's intransigent rejection of heaven, hell, Providence, Jesus, eschatology, prophecy, revelation, and theocracy. Throughout, the author combats superficial interpretations of Smith by revealing the complexity of his views on a variety of subjects: the deceptive allure of technology, wealth, power, and empire; the relationship between political and economic freedom; the impact of economic progress on warfare; the quarrel between ancients and moderns; the difficulties posed to the citizen by the burgeoning complexity of society; the differences between human wisdom, divine wisdom, and the wisdom of nature; the obstacles to separating church and state; and the social and psychological roots of religion. The concluding chapter appraises the demise of communism in light of the Marxian emancipation of economics from politics and religion.