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(Review) A Short History Of Ethics And Economics: The Greeks, Spencer J. Pack
(Review) A Short History Of Ethics And Economics: The Greeks, Spencer J. Pack
Economics Faculty Publications
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(Review) Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy Of Economic Science, Spencer J. Pack
(Review) Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy Of Economic Science, Spencer J. Pack
Economics Faculty Publications
Pierre Force, Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. ix, 279, $65.00. ISBN 0-521 83060-5.
Adam Smith On The Virtues: A Partial Resolution Of The Adam Smith Problem, Spencer J. Pack
Adam Smith On The Virtues: A Partial Resolution Of The Adam Smith Problem, Spencer J. Pack
Economics Faculty Publications
Adam Smith's definition of justice as a moral virtue based on the "passion" of resentment in 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments' (1759), despite seeming contradictions, supports his analysis of an acquisitive, commercial society in 'The Wealth of Nations' (1774) partly by precluding the concept of a just price.
Slavery, Adam Smith’S Economic Vision And The Invisible Hand, Spencer J. Pack
Slavery, Adam Smith’S Economic Vision And The Invisible Hand, Spencer J. Pack
Economics Faculty Publications
Smith was against slavery on moral and economic grounds. The "invisible hand" in societies which allow slavery, operates in such a way that increases in the wealth of the rich, leads to increased misery for the poor free citizens as well as for the slaves themselves. It seems that the beneficial workings of the "invisible hand" are dependent upon commercial societies which arc not based upon the institution of slavery.