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Aristotle And Thucydides On Wealth Exchange And Acquisition, Joseph Dammann

Honors Theses

Since the introduction of Adam Smith’s treatises on the mechanisms involved in the market economy, the field of economics has been categorized as a social science; a subject that could be analyzed and studied through the use of scientific methods in order to achieve a better understanding of exchange and wealth. The immense influence on economic thought caused by The Wealth of Nations granted mankind the license to compartmentalize his desires and interests. Yet, the perhaps fatal flaw in this turn in logic is the sequestering of economics away from an ethical standpoint. For Adam Smith was not a professor …