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Recent Engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

Paganelli, Maria Pia - 2015

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans — social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.We share with the 18th century Scots...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020903

Recent engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish enlightenment

Paganelli, Maria Pia - 2015

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans - social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. We share with the 18th century Scots...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602798

Emergent Properties in the Work of Friedrich Hayek

Lewis, Paul A. - 2015

The term 'emergence' features only infrequently on the work of Friedrich Hayek, and then almost always merely as a synonym for 'spontaneous order'. The argument of this paper is that Hayek's accounts both of the working of the human mind, and also of the spontaneous order of the market, rely...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015533

The Many, Diverse 'Main Points' of Adam Smith's the Wealth of Nations

Weingast, Barry R. - 2018

provide a theory of economic development. Other categories include the idea that self-interested individuals can support gains … from cooperation; ideas about justice, morals, and liberty; and finally, contributions to economic theory.The diversity of …, government, history, law, politics, sociology, and normative political theory that it is difficult to say that any one …

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The Historical Model : The 99 Percent

Chandler, DiMarkco Stephen - 2011

Inclusivity is perhaps the single most important human need to facilitate and demonstrate fairness for all members in an open and free society. When this principle need is compromised by appearances of unscrupulous self-interested privileged elites to perpetuate a systemic widening disparity...

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Adam Smith and "The Myth of the Invisible Hand - A View from the Trenches"

Kennedy, Gavin - 2012

This paper discusses the contrast between the near zero notice taken by Adam Smith's contemporaries of his use of the “invisible-hand” metaphor. Followed by the virtual absence of any notice of it for a just short of a century after his death in 1790 until it went “viral” following Paul...

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Why and how to teach the history of economic thought : economics as historically produced knowledge

Cohen, Avi Jonathan; Emmett, Ross B. - 2011

This draft chapter for the Elgar International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics is intended to give advice to instructors who might be teaching a history of economic thought course to undergraduates for the first time or who have perhaps been teaching for a while but would like to...

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Of positivism and the history of economic thought

Caldwell, Bruce - 2013

The rhetoric of positivism had a profound effect on the worldview and practice of economists in the middle of the last century. Though this influence has greatly diminished, it still may be found in the attitude of many economists towards the history of their discipline. This paper traces the...

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Did commons have few followers? : continuing my conversation with Yngve Ramstad

Rutherford, Malcolm - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 43 (2009) 2, pp. 441-448

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From the state theory of money to modern money theory : an alternative to economic orthodoxy

Wray, L. Randall - 2014

Theory (MMT). In the MMT approach, the state (or any other authority able to impose an obligation) imposes a liability in the …

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