Adam Smith: On Self Interest and Personal Responsibility
Self-Interest Before Adam Smith豆瓣评分:0.0 简介:Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith produces his clearest argument for the attainment of virtue in commercial society in his Theory of Moral Sentiments. Smith intends to achieve this through a transformation of man's self-love and sympathy into prudence and magnanimity. Sympathy's basis in self-love and Smith's ...
Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, was the triumph of the 'selfish hypothesis' (the idea that self- interest is the mo...
Is the assumed self-interested behavior in economics at odds with altruism and compassion? I believe that this question — which has been formulated in various ways in the literature for the past two centuries — is the thorn that often turns us away from reconciling the Adam Smith of the We...
Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, was the triumph of the 'selfish hypothesis' (the idea that self-interest is the ...
SmithVirtue EthicsUncertaintyIndeterminate ProbabilityImprecise ProbabilityBenthamite UtilitarianismThe economics profession has completely mixed up Adam Smith's definition of self-interest, by which Smith means the absolute necessity of successfully applying...
Adam Smith wrote"The Wealth of Nations, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms, and Essays on Philosophical Subjects." What Were Adam Smith's 3 Laws of Economics? The law of self-interest, the law of competition, and the law of supply and demand ...
Its concepts moved through the array of social passions such as altruism (Hume and Adam Smith), enlightened self-interest dictating universal goods (Bentham), and universal moral principles enforced by the individual sense of duty and ... A Edel,E Flower - 《Journal of the History of Philosoph...
(1)A.推理判断题。根据第一段的LikeSmith,many economists today believe that one's self-interest is what drivescompetition and growth in market economies.(像史密斯一样,今天的许多经济学家认为,在市场经济中,个人利益是推动竞争和增长的因素。)可知,像史密