How Adam Smith's banking views influenced Hamilton, Jefferson, and the debate over the Bank of the United States
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DOI: 10.1002/soej.12716
Abstract: The most sophisticated monetary and banking policy advice available in the decades after 1776 was found in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Smith recommended free competition among nationwide banks of issue with minimal legal restrictions… read more here.
Keywords: hamilton jefferson; jefferson; adam smith; banking ... See more keywords
In Adam Smith’s Own Words: The Role of Virtues in the Relationship Between Free Market Economies and Societal Flourishing, A Semantic Network Data-Mining Approach
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-020-04521-5
Abstract: Among business ethicists, Adam Smith is widely viewed as the defender of an amoral if not anti-moral economics in which individuals’ pursuit of their private self-interest is converted by an ‘invisible hand’ into shared economic… read more here.
Keywords: adam smith; relationship free; societal flourishing; free market ... See more keywords
Adam Smith’s Theory of Prudence Updated with Neuroscientific and Behavioral Evidence
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DOI: 10.1007/s12152-017-9332-9
Abstract: Other-perspective taking (OPT), distancing, time discounting as well as risk and loss aversion highly affect decision-making. Even though they influence each other, so far these cognitive processes have been unrelated or only partly related to… read more here.
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Freedom in Business: Elizabeth Anderson, Adam Smith, and the Effects of Dominance in Business
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DOI: 10.1007/s40926-024-00321-3
Abstract: Elizabeth Anderson claims that the prevailing culture of business is one of domination. “Most workplace governments in the United States are dictatorships, in which bosses. . don’t merely govern workers; they dominate them” (2017, p.… read more here.
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Adam Smith on usury: An esoteric reading
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.08.031
Abstract: Abstract In this paper I approach one of Smith's most discussed exceptions to the liberty principle. Numerous authors have treated the tension between Smith's endorsement of a ceiling on interest rates and his system of… read more here.
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Adam Smith’s genealogy of religion
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2020.1834280
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper has three main aims. First, to make good on recent suggestions that Adam Smith offers a genealogy of the origins of religious belief. This is done by offering a systematic reconstruction of… read more here.
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The philosophical foundations of authority in Adam Smith: wealth, admiration, and systems
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2024.2430948
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article explores the philosophical foundations of Adam Smith's concept of authority, focusing on its connections to ‘admiration' and the ‘love of systems'. Its primary objective is to analyse how Smith integrates moral, epistemological,… read more here.
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“Total Exemption from Trouble and from Risk”: Adam Smith on the Time of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
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DOI: 10.1080/07393148.2024.2334662
Abstract: Abstract Despite Adam Smith’s seemingly firm entrenchment within the liberal tradition, in Theory of Moral Sentiments, he forwards several positions that fundamentally challenge this understanding. Chief among them is his argument that society is necessarily… read more here.
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Adam Smith: systematic philosopher and public thinker
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DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2018.1510373
Abstract: Eric Schliesser’s Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker is a welcome addition to the secondary literature on Adam Smith for two reasons. First, not only does the book offer interest... read more here.
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Free trade for protectionists: a customs officer’s struggle to establish Adam Smith’s economic thought in Sweden.
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DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2020.1853990
Abstract: This article reconsiders the first partial translations of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations into Swedish in light of the new translation studies. It particularly looks at one translator and explo... read more here.
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Adam Smith and the idea of free government
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DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2021.1946658
Abstract: This article reconstructs Adam Smith’s contribution to the conversation on the nature and value of free government in the eighteenth century. Smith contributes to this conversation in two ways. Fir... read more here.
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