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1 online resource (xv, 254 pages) : illustrations |
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Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought |
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Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought series.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Chapter 1: Schumpeters Assessment of Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations: Why He Got It Wrong -- Chapter 2: Adam Smith's Rhetorical Strategy in The Wealth of Nations, against the Commercial System of Great Britain -- Chapter 3: The Nature and Causes of Corporate Negligence, Sham Lectures, and Ecclesiastical Indolence: Adam Smith on Joint-Stock Companies, Teachers, and Preachers -- Chapter 4: Self-Command in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. A Game-Theoretic Reinterpretation_Chapter 5: A Game-theoretic Re-evaluation of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- Chapter 6: Adam Smiths economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: the language of commerce -- Chapter 7: Adam Smith's Reasoning Routines, The Deep Structure of His Oeuvre, and Why It Turned out the Way It Did -- Chapter 8: Open questions |
| Summary |
Inspired by his lectures on rhetoric and by game theory, this book provides a new interpretation of Adam Smiths system of thought. It highlights its coherence through the identification of three reasoning routines and a meta-reasoning routine throughout his work on languages, rhetoric, moral sentiments, self-command, and the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. The identification of these reasoning routines allows the authors to uncover a hitherto poorly understood deep structure of Smiths work and to explain its main characteristics. How these routines emerged in Smiths early research on the principles of the human mind is also traced. This book sheds new light on Adam Smith and his work, highlighting his sophisticated understanding of strategic interaction in all things rhetorical, moral, and economic. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of ideas, the history of economic thought, game theory, Enlightenment studies, and rhetoric |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Andreas Ortmann took up his current position of Professor of Experimental and Behavioural Economics at the UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia, in 2009. Prior to this appointment, he was the (Boston Consulting Group) Professor of Economics at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. Benoit Walraevens is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Caen Normandy in France. His main fields of inquiry are eighteenth-century political economy, the French and Scottish Enlightenment, and inequality and social justice |
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Description based on print version record |
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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
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| SUBJECT |
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 fast |
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Social & political philosophy.
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Economic history.
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Philosophy -- Movements -- General.
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Business & Economics -- Economics -- General.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walraevens, Benoît, 1983- author.
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| ISBN |
9783030997045 |
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3030997049 |
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