The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-960506-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 646 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 1311 g

Adam Smith (1723-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions. He is best known as the author of the An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). Yet his work is name-checked more often than it is read and then typically it is of an uninformed nature; that he is an apologist for capitalism, a forceful promoter of self-interest, a defender of greed and a critic of any 'interference' in market transactions. To offset this caricature, this Handbook provides an informed portrait. Drawing on the expertise of leading Smith scholars from around the world, it reflects the depth and breadth of Smith's intellectual interests. After an introductory outline chapter on Smith's life and times, the volume comprises 28 new essays divided into seven parts. Five sections are devoted to particular themes in Smith's corpus - his views on Language, Art and Culture; his Moral Philosophy; his Economic thought, his discussions of History and Politics and his analyses of Social Relations. These five parts are framed by one that focuses on the immediate and proximate sources of his thought and the final one that recognizes Smith's status as a thinker of world-historical significance - indicating both his posthumous impact and influence and his contemporary resonance. While each chapter is a discrete contribution to scholarship, the Handbook comprises a composite whole to enable the full range of Smith's work to be appreciated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, Christopher J.

Paganelli, Maria Pia

Smith, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Introduction

- Adam Smith: Outline of Life, Times, and Legacy

- Part One: Adam Smith: Heritage and Contemporaries

- 1: Nicholas Phillipson: Adam Smith: A Biographer's Reflections

- 2: Leonidas Montes: Newtonianism and Adam Smith

- 3: Dennis C. Rasmussen: Adam Smith and Rousseau: Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment

- 4: Christopher J. Berry: Adam Smith and Early Modern Thought

- Part Two: Adam Smith on Language, Art and Culture

- 5: Catherine Labio: Adam Smith's Aesthetics

- 6: James Chandler: Adam Smith as Critic

- 7: Michael C. Amrozowicz: Adam Smith: History and Poetics

- 8: C. Jan Swearingen: Adam Smith on Language and Rhetoric: The Ethics of Style, Character, and Propriety

- Part Three: Adam Smith and Moral Philosophy

- 9: Christel Fricke: Adam Smith: The Sympathetic Process and the Origin and Function of Conscience

- 10: Duncan Kelly: Adam Smith and the Limits of Sympathy

- 11: Ryan Patrick Hanley: Adam Smith and Virtue

- 12: Eugene Heath: Adam Smith and Self-Interest

- Part Four: Adam Smith and Economics

- 13: Tony Aspromourgos: Adam Smith on Labour and Capital

- 14: Nerio Naldi: Adam Smith on Value and Prices

- 15: Hugh Rockoff: Adam Smith on Money, Banking, and the Price Level

- 16: Maria Pia Paganelli: Commercial Relations: from Adam Smith to Field Experiments

- Part Five: Adam Smith on History and Politics

- 17: Spiros Tegos: Adam Smith: Theorist of Corruption

- 18: David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart: Adam Smith and the State: Language and Reform

- 19: Fabrizio Simon: Adam Smith and the Law

- 20: Edwin van de Haar: Adam Smith on Empire and International Relations

- Part Six: Adam Smith on Social Relations

- 21: Richard Boyd: Adam Smith, Civility, and Civil Society

- 22: Gavin Kennedy: Adam Smith on Religion

- 23: Samuel Fleischacker: Adam Smith and Equality

- 24: Maureen Harkin: Adam Smith and Women

- Part Seven; Adam Smith: Legacy and Influence

- 25: Spencer J. Pack: Adam Smith and Marx

- 26: Craig Smith: Adam Smith and the New Right

- 27: Tom Campbell: Adam Smith: Methods, Morals and Markets

- 28: Amartya Sen: The Contemporary Relevance of Adam Smith

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher J. Berry is Professor (Emeritus) of Political Theory and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He has established himself as a leading international scholar of the Scottish Enlightenment. In addition to seminal articles, and contributions in this area, he is the author of the key text Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh, 1997), which is shortly to appear in both Japanese and Chinese translations His scholarship ranges more widely. He is the author of six books, including The Idea of Luxury (Cambridge, 1994 Chinese translation, 2005) and David Hume (Continuum 2009). He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which Adam Smith was a founder member. His book The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh) is scheduled to appear in 2013.

Maria Pia Paganelli is an assistant professor of economics at Trinity University. She works on Adam Smith, David Hume, 18th century monetary theories, and also explores the links between the Scottish Enlightenment and the results from behavioural economics. She won the 2009 European Society of the History of Economic Thought's Best Article of the Year prize and is book review editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Craig Smith is a lecturer in the Department of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He works on the history of political thought with particular reference to the eighteenth century and the Scottish Enlightenment. He is the author of Adam Smith's Political Philosophy: The Invisible Hand and Spontaneous Order (Routledge, 2006) and is book review editor of the Adam Smith Review.