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narrowed some of the ideas contained especially in the works of Adam Smith and less so in the works of David Ricardo and Karl …
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assessment of the then new concept of Pareto optimality, together with his reinterpretation and rejection of Ricardo's (1821 …
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Harriet Taylor has been long forgotten as an economist and political philosopher, while merely remembered as John Stuart Mill’s friend and belatedly wife. Never was fate more unjust: we only need to recall that Taylor - whose liberal background soon led her to be fascinated by socialist...
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In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argues that a country's national income depends on its labor productivity, which … become rich, while others fail to do so and remain poor? Smith's answer, in an important but neglected theme of his work, is … allow investment and exchange to take place will see economic progress take place. Smith's emphasis on a country …
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Colonial Americans complained that gold and silver coins (specie) were chronically scarce. These coins could be acquired only through importation. Given unrestricted trade in specie, market arbitrage should have eliminated chronic scarcity. A model of efficient barter and local inside money is...
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This article to dedicated to the 230th anniversary of the publishing of Adam Smith`s work “The Wealth of Nations” (9 … March, 1776). The subject of our study is the liberal world of Smith and social welfare. We highlight his contribution as a … companies and the understanding of the cosmopolitan nature of capital, substantiated by Smith. We specify the place he earmarks …
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Much of the literature surrounding Schumpeter's 1942 Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy has focused on his reformulation of democratic theory rather than on the perceived tensions in the classical variant which motivated his reorientation. In contrast to the position of Schumpeter, the rational...
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The views of William Petty on the nature of human capital; the special significance for economic development and the growth of wealth; the appraisal of the human value; the role of education and health care in the human capital formation; the responsibilities of the family, businesses and the...
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