Adam Smith In Toulouse And Occitania

Author : Alain Alcouffe,Philippe Massot-Bordenave
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030465780

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Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania by Alain Alcouffe,Philippe Massot-Bordenave Pdf

This book provides substantial background on what Adam Smith did during his stay in Toulouse and the Languedoc region of France during the 18th century. This is a crucial period in Smith’s life for at least two reasons: i) it is during this time that Smith began to work on The Wealth of Nations; and ii) it is generally understood that although some of his ideas about political economy were already formed before his trip, his encounters with many French political economists during his time in France helped him to further develop them. As such, this book provides a rich resource to further understanding Smith's world, his travel experiences and the people he met during this time and situates these within the broader context of Smith's life as a whole, and within the British aristocracy. This work will be of value to students and researchers in the history of economic thought, travel studies and Scottish studies.

Author : Andreas Ortmann,Benoît Walraevens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030997045

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Adam Smith’s System by Andreas Ortmann,Benoît Walraevens Pdf

Inspired by his lectures on rhetoric and by game theory, this book provides a new interpretation of Adam Smith’s system of thought. It highlights its coherence through the identification of three reasoning routines and a meta-reasoning routine throughout his work on languages, rhetoric, moral sentiments, self-command, and the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. The identification of these reasoning routines allows the authors to uncover a hitherto poorly understood deep structure of Smith’s work and to explain its main characteristics. How these routines emerged in Smith’s early research on the principles of the human mind is also traced. This book sheds new light on Adam Smith and his work, highlighting his sophisticated understanding of strategic interaction in all things rhetorical, moral, and economic. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of ideas, the history of economic thought, game theory, Enlightenment studies, and rhetoric.

Author : Alain Alcouffe,Philippe Massot-Bordenave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 270896996X

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Adam Smith à Toulouse et en Occitanie by Alain Alcouffe,Philippe Massot-Bordenave Pdf

Author : Niclas Berggren
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781802206159

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Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom by Niclas Berggren Pdf

This seminal Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research on economic freedom, using multidisciplinary methods to assess studies of the determinants and consequences of market-oriented institutions and policies. Niclas Berggren brings together world-leading experts in their respective fields to explore the notion of economic freedom in the history of economic thought, to present measures of economic freedom and to provide overviews of the latest empirical research.

Author : Paul Seabright
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691258782

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The Divine Economy by Paul Seabright Pdf

A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has led to their accumulating great power and wealth. Religions in many traditions have honed their competitive strategies over thousands of years. Today, they are big business; like businesses, they must recruit, raise funds, disburse budgets, manage facilities, organize transportation, motivate employees, and get their message out. In The Divine Economy, economist Paul Seabright argues that religious movements are a special kind of business: they are platforms, bringing together communities of members who seek many different things from one another—spiritual fulfilment, friendship and marriage networks, even business opportunities. Their function as platforms, he contends, is what has allowed religions to consolidate and wield power. This power can be used for good, especially when religious movements provide their members with insurance against the shocks of modern life, and a sense of worth in their communities. It can also be used for harm: political leaders often instrumentalize religious movements for authoritarian ends, and religious leaders can exploit the trust of members to inflict sexual, emotional, financial or physical abuse, or to provoke violence against outsiders. Writing in a nonpartisan spirit, Seabright uses insights from economics to show how religion and secular society can work together in a world where some people feel no need for religion, but many continue to respond with enthusiasm to its call.

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Early printed books
ISBN : UCAL:$B186145

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A Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith by Adam Smith Pdf

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433067290324

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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations by Adam Smith Pdf

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590917105

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Life of Adam Smith. Together with a View of His Doctrine, Compared with that of the French Economists by Adam Smith Pdf

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015073767702

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The Works of Adam Smith by Adam Smith Pdf

Author : Ian Simpson Ross
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780191501272

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The Life of Adam Smith by Ian Simpson Ross Pdf

Adam Smith (1723-1790) is perceived, through his best-known book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, as the founder of economics as a science. His thought has shaped modern ideas about the market economy and the role of the state in relation to it. Yet Smith needs to be recognized as more than this, as a man of letters, moralist, historian, and critic, as well as an economist, if we are to get full value for his ideas and perspectives in contemporary applications. Ian Simpson Ross is the biographer of Lord Kames, Smith's patron, and of the Scottish poet William Dunbar, and has edited, with E C Mossner, Smith's correspondence for the Glasgow edition of his works. In this, the first full-scale biography of Adam Smith for a hundred years, Ross brings his subject in to historical light as a thinker and author by examining his family circumstance, education, career, and social and intellectual circle, including David Hume and Francois Quesnay, revealed through his correspondence, archival documents, the reports of contemporaries, and the record of his publications. Readers will meet Smith as a student at a lively Glasgow and sleepy Oxford; freelance lecturer in rhetoric; innovative university teacher; tutor travelling abroad with a Duke; acclaimed political economist; policy advisor to governments during and after the American crisis; and finally, if paradoxically in view of his tenets, a Commissioner of Customs coping with the free traders in the smuggling business. This is the life of a Scottish moral philosopher whose legacy of thought concerns and affects us all. Its lively and informed account will appeal to those interested in the social and intellectual milieu of the eighteenth century, and in scottish history. Economists and philosophers will find much to read about the history of their disciplines, supported by full documentation.

Author : Ian Simpson Ross
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191613944

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The Life of Adam Smith by Ian Simpson Ross Pdf

This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith's life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has recently come to light, this full-scale biography of Adam Smith examines the personality, career, and social and intellectual circumstances of the Scottish moral philosopher regarded as the founder of scientific economics, whose legacy of thought - most notably about the free market and the role of the state - concerns us all. Ian Simpson Ross draws on correspondence, archival documents, the reports of contemporaries, and the record of Smith's publications to fashion a lively account of Adam Smith as a man of letters, moralist, historian, and critic, as well as an economist. Supported with full scholarly apparatus for students and academics, the book also offers 20 halftone illustrations representing Smith and the world in which he lived.

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015005735546

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The Works of Adam Smith: Considerations concerning the formation of languages. Essays on philosophical subjects. Account of the life and writings of Dr. Smith by Adam Smith Pdf

Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780141909288

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The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Pdf

Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes include Smith's assessment of the mercantile system, his advocacy of the freedom of commerce and industry, and his famous prophecy that "America will be one of the foremost nations of the world".

Author : Adam Smith,Jean-Baptiste Say,J.R. McCulloch
Publisher : Coventry House Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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History of Economic Theory by Adam Smith,Jean-Baptiste Say,J.R. McCulloch Pdf

Author : C. R. Fay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107632066

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Adam Smith by C. R. Fay Pdf

This is a 1956 study of eminent Scot Adam Smith and the Scotland in which he lived and wrote.