Resenhas de Paul Sagar. Adam Smith Reconsidered. History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics. Princeton University Press, 2022, por Thiago Vargas (USP-FAPESP) e Antoine Lilti. L’héritage des Lumières. Ambivalences la modernité. Seuil ; Gallimard, 2019, Ciro Lourenço (USP-Paris 1)

Recent scholarship has claimed Adam Smith’s frontal attack on the mercantile system as a precocious expression of liberal anti-imperialism. This article argues that settler colonialism in North America represented an important exception and limit to anti-imperial commitments. Smith spared agrarian colonies from his invective against other imperial practices like chattel slavery trade monopolies...

Abstract Adam Smith does not focus on the creation of an ideal world, but understanding that societal changes for better are unintentional product commerce. Furthermore, as if to highlight concreteness these changes, he sees population growth way measure this betterment society.

According to Adam Adam Smith (1790), human selfishness can be restrained by introspection. We test the effect of introspection on people’s willingness to cooperate in a public good game. Drawing on the concept of identity utility (George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, 2000), we show theoretically that introspection may enhance cooperation by increasing the relative cost of deviating from one...

This study examines corporate performance effects when banks outsource noncore business processes. Additionally, the article proposes that knowledge management process plays a significant role in determining the outcomes of outsourcing. Drawing from resource theory and knowledge management literature, the authors develop the concept of managerial outsourcing competence and then propose a concep...