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Adam Smith's Library: A Catalogue
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The most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to all the books which were in Adam Smith's library at the time of his death can be found in this paper, which is of enormous interest to all those interested in the genesis of early economic thought.Abstract:
Adam Smith is considered the founding father of economics. Yet to form an accurate picture of the theoretical basis of his work, it is necessary to know what influenced him. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to all the books which were in Adam Smith's library at the time of his death. An invaluable reference work, this book will be of enormous interest to all those interested in the genesis of early economic thought.read more
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Adam Smith and the History of the Invisible Hand
TL;DR: Smith's "invisible hand" has attracted a great deal of attention in the history of ideas as discussed by the authors, and there is a large body of secondary literature devoted to it, but there is no consensus on what Smith might have intended when he used this expression, or on what role it played in Smith's thought.
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Recent Engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conversation between Adam Smith and other eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans, the social sciences and the humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.
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The limits of mercantile administration: adam smith and edmund burke on britain’s east india company
TL;DR: This article argued that Adam Smith and Edmund Burke held similar views on matters relating to political economy, however, one area of tension in their thought was the institutional credibility of Britain's East India Company, and they argued that the Company corrupted market order in India, but while Smith supported the termination of the firm's charter, Burke aspired to preserve it.
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Anti-Semitism in Anti-economics
TL;DR: This paper argued that antieconomics and modern anti-Semitism shared some leading ideological contentions, which almost amount to a sine qua non of most modern forms of antieconomics and anti-semitism.
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We Are Not the Center of the Universe: The Role of Astronomy in the Moral Defense of Commerce in Adam Smith
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that Adam Smith's theory of moral development, and therefore his moral defense of commercial societies, seems indebted to astronomical theories in general, rather than just to Newton, as it is commonly assumed.