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.
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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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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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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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Freedom and the Machine: Technological Criticisms in Adam Smith’s Thought
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DOI: 10.1177/10659129221091579
Abstract: 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… read more here.
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Die langsame Entstehung eines ökonomischen Systems. Konkurrenz und freier Markt im Werk von Adam Smith
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DOI: 10.1515/hzhz-2018-0034
Abstract: Zusammenfassung Bis in die 1970er Jahre wurde Adam Smith auf der Grundlage seiner 1776 erschienenen Abhandlung über den „Wealth of Nations“ vor allem als geistiger Vater der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Befürworter eines freien, deregulierten Markts angesehen.… read more here.
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‘Of the Expence of Defence’: What Has Changed Since Adam Smith?
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DOI: 10.1515/peps-2017-0012
Abstract: Abstract This essay selectively reviews the history of economic thought on war and peace, starting with Adam Smith. Today, Smith’s trickle of thoughts has become a broad marshland. In this marshland, however, discrete currents are… read more here.
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Adam Smith, the Impartial Spectator and Embodiment: Towards an Economics of Accountability and Dialogue
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DOI: 10.3390/rel9040118
Abstract: This article argues that Adam Smith’s notion of sympathy and the impartial spectator in his work The Theory of Moral Sentiments [1759] connects the individual to society. In this work, Smith’s economics are far more… read more here.
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