Der Autor beschreibt verständlich Leben und Karriere, Werk und Wirkung eines wichtigen Ökonomen (1723-1790), dessen Arbeit für die Wirtschaftswissenschaften immer noch als unverzichtbar erscheint. Rezension (ekz): Mittlerweile 5. Band der Reihe über grosse Ökonomen. Zeichnet sich wie seine...

1. Smith and Economic Liberalism -- 2. Hume’s challenge: Hume’s theory of promise -- 3. The rules of the game -- 4. The (Benign) Economic Consequences of the Mercantile System -- 5. The malignant effects of the mercantile system -- 6. Economic Progress without Capital Accumulation -- 7. The...

Adam Smith (1723-90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism. From his ideas about the promise and pitfalls of globalization to his steadfast belief in the preservation of human dignity, his work is as...

This volume features 19 original chapters on Adam Smith's conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations. The chapters in Part 1 focus on structural aspects of Smith's...

"Adam Smith's sociable market has been contorted into a free market; Christian love has become selfish individualism; John Adams' fear that elite domination would destroy our republic has been ignored. These three economic, religious, and political mistakes make it impossible for many to attain...

Volkswirtschafts-Crashkurs für jedermann. Von Marx bis von Hayek, von Sozialismus bis Liberalismus - eine Auswahl der wichtigsten ökonomischen Köpfe und Theorien, kurz und prägnant vorgestellt. Wer schon immer wissen wollte, worin sich Keynes und Friedman unterscheiden, ob Marx und von Hayek...

Crowd analysis is of increasing interest. Sociologists, for example, are interested in studying social influence within and between small groups of individuals traveling in a crowd. However, current empirical studies conducted by human observers are very time-consuming. We propose an automatic,...