Political Themes in the Correspondence of Adam Smith

Adam Smith and Entangled Political Economy

Adam Smith , Behavioral

Adam Smith , Behavioral Economist

Adam Smith and Greed

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist

I n The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, Adam Smith famously argued that economic behavior was motivated by self-interest. But 17 years earlier in 1759, Smith had proposed a theory of human behavior that looks anything but selfinterested. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith argued that behavior was determined by the struggle between what Smith termed the “passions” and...