John A. Taylor

Adam Smith: Greed and Benevolence

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Adam Smith is no doubt the most famous name in laissez-faire economic theory, and his phrase the invisible hand was the most important concept of classical economics. Yet Smith was himself a professor of moral philosophy. Pity was the moral sentiment central to Smith's system, and benevolence was the result of pity. What would Smith the moral philosopher say about the economics of today? The historian John A Taylor takes us back to Smith's context, the Scottish Enlightenment, utilitarianism, and polite society. Taylor then traces how the moral foundations of Smith's thought were later distorted into the fundamentally amoral regime that lies a… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-620-3-02625-2
EAN: 9786203026252
Produktnummer: 37144931
Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 84 S.
Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.5 cm 143 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 143

Über den Autor

John A. Taylor is a docent at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Saint Petersburg State University. He has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Japan and Russia. The University of Chicago granted his PhD. His previous books include British Empiricism and Early Political Economy: Gregory King's 1696 Estimates of National Wealth and Population.