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Is There Room for 'Fear' as a Human Passion in the Work by Adam Smith?
Parisi, Daniela - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2014
The sciences tell us that fears are physical feelings and mental emotions that play a key role in any society. Not many issues related to fear are explored by economists today. The aim of this paper is to go backwards through the history of economic thought, and examine if and how Adam Smith...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010819065
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Is There Room for 'Fear' as a Human Passion in the Work by Adam Smith?
Parisi, Daniela - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2014
The sciences tell us that fears are physical feelings and mental emotions that play a key role in any society. Not many issues related to fear are explored by economists today. The aim of this paper is to go backwards through the history of economic thought, and examine if and how Adam Smith...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011157188
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Is There Room for 'Fear' as a Human Passion in the Work by Adam Smith?
Parisi, Daniela - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2014
The sciences tell us that fears are physical feelings and mental emotions that play a key role in any society. Not many issues related to fear are explored by economists today. The aim of this paper is to go backwards through the history of economic thought, and examine if and how Adam Smith...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099557
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Who is Who? Die Sozialstruktur der Soziologie-Professorenschaft in Deutschland
Mau, Steffen; Huschka, Denis - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2010-12), pp. 751-766
Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine …-structural composition of the professors in the field of sociology. The basis is a full survey of professors at departments of sociology at … sociology professors, which indicates the ongoing dominance of specific pattern of recruitment. In particular the inclusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010981094
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Die Sozialstruktur der Soziologie: Professorenschaft in Deutschland
Mau, Steffen; Huschka, Denis - Abteilung "Ungleichheit und soziale Integration", … - 2010
Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine …-structural composition of professors in the field of sociology. This investigation is based upon a full survey of professors at sociological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010981726
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Mirror neuron research and Adam Smith’s concept of sympathy: Three points of correspondence
Kiesling, L. - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 25 (2012) 4, pp. 299-313
In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith asserts that humans have an innate interest in the fortunes of other people and desire for sympathy with others. In Smith’s theory, sympathy is an imperfectly reflected combination of emotion and judgment when one observes someone (the agent) in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987911
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Shared Value and the Impartial Spectator Test
Szmigin, Isabelle; Rutherford, Robert - In: Journal of Business Ethics 114 (2013) 1, pp. 171-182
Growing inequality and its implications for democratic polity suggest that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has not proved itself in twenty-first century business, largely as it lacks clear criteria of demarcation for businesses to follow. Today the problem is viewed by many commentators as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010989874
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CSR and Stakeholder Theory: A Tale of Adam Smith
Brown, Jill; Forster, William - In: Journal of Business Ethics 112 (2013) 2, pp. 301-312
This article leverages insights from the body of Adam Smith’s work, including two lesser-known manuscripts—the Theory of Moral Sentiments and Lectures in Jurisprudence—to help answer the question as to how companies should morally prioritize corporate social responsibility (CSR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990043
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Friedrich List versus Adam Smith in the Context of Modern Foreign Trade Policy of Ukraine
Makukha Svetlana N. - In: Business Inform (2013) 2, pp. 6-10
The article analyses two opposite theories of foreign trade policy: of an advocate of free trade Adam Smith and of a German economist Friedrich List who insisted on a necessity to apply protectionism under certain conditions. It is proved that the methodology applied by F. List in the study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010855170
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Do economists need virtues?
Lipka, David - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2014
In many works Deirdre McCloskey criticizes professional economics for ignoring virtues. Even though I disagree with details of her analysis I concur with her general conclusions. In the paper I sketch my own perspective on how economists could profit from the virtue discourse as developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941787