New voices on Adam Smith / edited by Leonidas Montes and Eric Schliesser ; with a foreword by Knud Haakonssen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Montes, Leonidas, 1966-

Schliesser, Eric, 1971-

Series:

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 82.

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 82

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.

Smith, Adam.

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics.

Economists--Great Britain.

Economists.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxi, 364 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of academic interest in Adam Smith. As a consequence, a large number of PhD dissertations on Smith have been written by international scholars - in different languages, and in many diverse disciplines, including Economics, Women's Studies, Philosophy, Science Studies, Political Theory and English Literature: diversity which has enriched the area of study. In response to this activity, and in order to making these contributions more easily accessible to other Smith scholars, Leonidas Montes and Eric Schliesser have edited this important new book. Of interest to Smith scholars and those interested in the history of economic thought in general, the contributions to this book are self-consciously interdisciplinary and skillfully employ many different methodologies.

Contents:

Part I Adam Smith, his sources and influence 15

2 Adam Smith, Aristotle and virtue ethics / Ryan Patrick Hanley 17

3 Adam Smith and his feminist contemporaries / Edith Kuiper 40

4 Beautiful and orderly systems: Adam Smith on the aesthetics of political improvement / Robert Mitchell 61

Part II Adam Smith and moral theory 87

5 Smith on 'connexion', culture and judgment / Fonna Forman-Barzilai 89

6 Double standard - naturally! Smith and Rawls: a comparison of methods / Carola Von Villiez 115

7 Applying Adam Smith: a step towards Smithian environmental virtue ethics / Patrick Frierson 140

8 Does the 'wisdom of nature' need help? / Lauren Brubaker 168

9 'This irregularity of sentiment': Adam Smith on moral luck / Chad Flanders 193

Part III Adam Smith and economics 219

10 The mercantilist foundations of 'Dr Mandeville's licentious system': Adam Smith on Bernard Mandeville / Jimena Hurtado-Prieto 221

11 On Adam Smith's Newtonianism and general economic equilibrium theory / Leonidas Montes 247

12 Vanity and the Daedalian wings of paper money in Adam Smith / Maria Pia Paganelli 271

Part IV Adam Smith and knowledge 291

13 Adam Smith on progress and knowledge / Craig Smith 293

14 Adam Smith's criticism of the doctrine of utility: a theory of the creative present / Estrella Trincado 313

15 Adam Smith's benevolent and self-interested conception of philosophy / Eric Schliesser 328.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415356962

0203002954

OCLC:

61362807

Publisher Number:

9780415356961

9780203002957