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The Man within the Breast, the Supreme Impartial Spectator, and Other Impartial Spectators in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Klein, Daniel B.; Matson, Erik W.; Doran, Colin - 2018

Adam Smith infused the expression “impartial spectator” with a plexus of related meanings, one of which is a super-being, which normally would aptly take the definite article the, and which bears parallels to monotheistic ideas of God. As for any genuine, identified, human spectator of an...

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Adam Smith's Unmerited Censure : Revisiting a 1764 Pamphlet on Slavery

Klein, Daniel B.; Asher, Kendra - 2021

, in his Theory of Moral Sentiments. With some Reflections on Slavery in General. Authorship has been attributed to Arthur …

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Presenting Adam Smith's Unified Writings : Paratextual Cues in Wealth of Nations

Klein, Daniel B.; Breashears, Caroline - 2022

’s published works. A photograph provides a touchstone to discuss: (1) the Language essay, (2) the full title of The Theory of …

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Conservative Liberalism : Hume, Smith, and Burke as Policy Liberals and Polity Conservatives

Klein, Daniel B. - 2020

On regular issues of policy reform—presupposing a stable integrated polity— Hume, Smith, and Burke were liberal in the original political meaning of “liberal.” Thus, on policy reform, although they accorded the status quo a certain presumption (as any reasonable person must), the more...

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Public Choice and the Virginia Tradition of Political Economy

Wagner, Richard E. - 2014

This is a preliminary draft of the first of what will be eight chapters in a book titled Politics as a Peculiar Business: Public Choice in a System of Entangled Political Economy. This chapter explores some issues regarding the scholarly location of what is often described as the Virginia...

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Stigler on the Science of Economics : A Tale of Two Knights

Boettke, Peter J. - 2018

only of economic theory but also public policy. Stigler's understanding of economic science, viewed from a Knightian …

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Competition as a Discovery Procedure : A Rejoinder to Professor Kirzner and Others on Coordination and Discovery

Klein, Daniel B. - 2011

The Fall 2010 issue of the Journal of Private Enterprise featured a complicated set of papers (link to the issue). The lead article was a long paper by Jason Briggeman and me, on Israel Kirzner’s work on coordination and discovery. The thrust of our paper was an affirmation of Kirzner’s...

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Markets as Economizers of Information : Field Experimental Examination of the 'Hayek Hypothesis'

Al-Ubaydli, Omar - 2012

The work of Friedrich Von Hayek contains several testable predictions about the nature of market processes. Vernon Smith termed the most important one the 'Hayek Hypothesis': equilibrium prices and the gains from trade can be achieved in the presence of diffuse, decentralized information, and in...

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The Dynamics of International Intervention : Entrepreneurial Discovery & the Market Process

Smith, Nathaniel - 2021

policy or repeal the intervention and move toward freer trade. I illustrate the theory with two historical trade wars: The …

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The Market Process as Nonviolent Action

Alshamy, Yahya; Ammons, Joshua; Coyne, Christopher J.; … - 2023

This paper connects the theory of the market process to scholarship on nonviolent action. Doing so advances market … process theory by bringing its interaction with nonviolent action and its peace-building potential to the forefront. It … process theory and nonviolent action we offer several illustrations of nonviolence in the market process …

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