Adam Smith's Sociological Economics.

The Same Face of the Two Smiths: Adam Smith and Vernon Smith

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Will the Real Adam Smith Please Stand Up?: Teaching Social Economics in the Principles Course

Part of the difficulty of introducing social economics into the principles course is the perception that social economics is anathema to mainstream economics. 1 As noted by Warren Samuels, however, "neoclassical economics is already a form of social economics" despite its "pretensions of methodological individualism and value-neutrality" [Samuels, p. 2]. Heilbroner also makes the case that the ...

Adam Smith’s theory of absolute advantage and the use of doxography in the history of economics

This article reconstructs Adam Smith’s theory of international trade and compares it with the way it is presented in modern textbooks as the theory of absolute advantage. This textbook presentation falls short of Smith’s original ideas. I argue that the reason for this is the doxographic reconstruction of Smith’s theory to fit him into a Whig history of international trade theory. In this way t...

Sic et Non: Three Remarks of Adam Smith to Economics of Governance

The work of Adam Smith is often interpreted as a justification of the natural order of economy, an apology which harmonizes individual and public interests. In addition to the concern for the economic system, Smith’s books comprise valuable passages in which the role of the state is explored within its both negative and positive implications. Generally, the corpus of his work includes three pro...