Adam SmithBloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013 M08 1 - 200 páginas The Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was as a pioneer of political economy. In fact, his economic thought became the foundation of classical economics and his key work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is considered to be the first modern work in economics. For Smith, a free competition environment was the best way to foster economic development that would work in accordance with natural laws. The framework he set up to explain the free market remains true to this day. |
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... describing the phenomenon of human morality, as a natural scientist or anthropologist might, or whether he is also ... describe the origins, maintenance, and development of the human social institution of commonly shared morality. But ...
... describing the phenomenon of human morality, as a natural scientist or anthropologist might, or whether he is also ... describe the origins, maintenance, and development of the human social institution of commonly shared morality. But ...
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... describe an external reality, a reality whose nature, it is usually held, does not change. So science is the progressive attempt to develop new or better ways to capture and represent an external reality, and the regularities that ...
... describe an external reality, a reality whose nature, it is usually held, does not change. So science is the progressive attempt to develop new or better ways to capture and represent an external reality, and the regularities that ...
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... saying what, exactly, gravity itself is. It thus sounded to some as though he was not really describing the cause at all, only describing its effects. Even if Newton could describe the motion of the planets, Smith's Philosophical Program ...
... saying what, exactly, gravity itself is. It thus sounded to some as though he was not really describing the cause at all, only describing its effects. Even if Newton could describe the motion of the planets, Smith's Philosophical Program ...
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... describe a large swath of observed phenomena. The lower the ratio of rules to phenomena, for Smith, the better. But the emphasis is on observing phenomena and on imagining a cause that links them. Thus he ends HA with the provocative ...
... describe a large swath of observed phenomena. The lower the ratio of rules to phenomena, for Smith, the better. But the emphasis is on observing phenomena and on imagining a cause that links them. Thus he ends HA with the provocative ...
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... describe this external world and its principles are “mere inventions of the imagination,” and can be corroborated or disconfirmed but cannot be known to be true once and for all.14 Smith maintains this skeptical stance even in the case ...
... describe this external world and its principles are “mere inventions of the imagination,” and can be corroborated or disconfirmed but cannot be known to be true once and for all.14 Smith maintains this skeptical stance even in the case ...
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Part III Enduring Significance | 133 |
Conservative or Libertarian? | 164 |
Bibliography | 168 |
Index | 177 |
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