William Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thomas Chalmers: The Market, Moral Conduct, and Social Order
Combining elements of Adam Smith's third-party perspective with the evangelical view of life as a trial, Thomas Chalmers argued for a market-based social order. The viability of this order would depend on the capacity to develop character in response to the choices made possible by the market itself. Character could replace administrative interventions. Chalmers saw well-intentioned administration, especially with respect to the poor laws, as bot…
Sentimentality, communicative action and the social self: Adam Smith meets Jürgen Habermas
There is a long and tortuous history of misinterpreting Smithian social theory. After rehearsing that history we offer here a way of understanding Smith that, unlike much of recent revisionist Smith scholarship, does not further add to this confusion. Our proposal is to understand the relation between moral and economic behaviour in Smith as analogous to the way in which Habermas makes strategic (and normatively oriented) behaviour parasitic on a…
Means and ends: The idea of capital in the west, 1500-1970 - By Francesco Boldizzoni
Ricardo: Economic Thought and Social Order
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Homo Economicus Meets G. H. Mead: A Contribution to the Critique of Economic Theory
A bstract . The relation between economic behavior and morality remains a live issue within economics and cognate disciplines. The standard view among economists themselves has been that while moral positions (understood broadly) may motivate our behavior, they do not capacitate or enable it. On this view the figure of Homo economicus , representing the how as against the why of our actions, must be understood as resolutely amoral. In this articl…
Das Adam Smith Problem: A Critical Realist Perspective
The old Das Adam Smith Problem is no longer tenable. Few today believe that Smith postulates two contradictory principles of human action: one in the Wealth of Nations and another in the Theory of Moral Sentiments. Nevertheless, an Adam Smith problem of sorts endures: there is still no widely agreed version of what it is that links these two texts, aside from their common author; no widely agreed version of how, if at all, Smith's postulation of …
Das Adam Smith Problem: A critical realist perspective
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Homo Economicus Meets G. H. Mead: A Contribution to the Critique of Economic Theory
A bstract . The relation between economic behavior and morality remains a live issue within economics and cognate disciplines. The standard view among economists themselves has been that while moral positions (understood broadly) may motivate our behavior, they do not capacitate or enable it. On this view the figure of Homo economicus , representing the how as against the why of our actions, must be understood as resolutely amoral. In this articl…
Thomas Chalmers: The Market, Moral Conduct, and Social Order
Combining elements of Adam Smith's third-party perspective with the evangelical view of life as a trial, Thomas Chalmers argued for a market-based social order. The viability of this order would depend on the capacity to develop character in response to the choices made possible by the market itself. Character could replace administrative interventions. Chalmers saw well-intentioned administration, especially with respect to the poor laws, as bot…
Das Adam Smith Problem: A Critical Realist Perspective
The old Das Adam Smith Problem is no longer tenable. Few today believe that Smith postulates two contradictory principles of human action: one in the Wealth of Nations and another in the Theory of Moral Sentiments. Nevertheless, an Adam Smith problem of sorts endures: there is still no widely agreed version of what it is that links these two texts, aside from their common author; no widely agreed version of how, if at all, Smith's postulation of …
Das Adam Smith Problem: A critical realist perspective
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Ricardo: Economic Thought and Social Order
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Homo Economicus Meets G. H. Mead: A Contribution to the Critique of Economic Theory
A bstract . The relation between economic behavior and morality remains a live issue within economics and cognate disciplines. The standard view among economists themselves has been that while moral positions (understood broadly) may motivate our behavior, they do not capacitate or enable it. On this view the figure of Homo economicus , representing the how as against the why of our actions, must be understood as resolutely amoral. In this articl…
Sentimentality, communicative action and the social self: Adam Smith meets Jürgen Habermas
There is a long and tortuous history of misinterpreting Smithian social theory. After rehearsing that history we offer here a way of understanding Smith that, unlike much of recent revisionist Smith scholarship, does not further add to this confusion. Our proposal is to understand the relation between moral and economic behaviour in Smith as analogous to the way in which Habermas makes strategic (and normatively oriented) behaviour parasitic on a…
Means and ends: The idea of capital in the west, 1500-1970 - By Francesco Boldizzoni
Thomas Chalmers: The Market, Moral Conduct, and Social Order
Combining elements of Adam Smith's third-party perspective with the evangelical view of life as a trial, Thomas Chalmers argued for a market-based social order. The viability of this order would depend on the capacity to develop character in response to the choices made possible by the market itself. Character could replace administrative interventions. Chalmers saw well-intentioned administration, especially with respect to the poor laws, as bot…
Economic Theory and Institutions (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Adam smith (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)