Levine, David - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 5 (1998) 1, pp. 36-59
Because economic affairs involve individual action, they must be understood on the basis of a theory which is both … individual action. Economic theory, then, requires a conception of the individual agent or subject of economic activity. In this … essay, I explore this conception as it develops in the classical theory exemplified by the work of Adam Smith and Karl Marx. …