Michele Bee
Biographic Data
| ID | 6251303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Bee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Bee |
| SIGNATURE | BÉE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre Walras Pareto, Universite de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3703-6851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Wealth of Nations at 250
The 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations challenges us to ask whether, and to what extent, the interdisciplinary developments in Smith scholarship deepen our understanding of Smith's economic ideas; and whether they can allow us to recover a stronger sense of unity and coherence to his work, or instead bring into sharper view its tensions, ambivalences, and internal fractures. This special issue of HOPE seeks to illuminate the book anew by …
At the Origin of the Natural Price
Smith's theory of value is typically interpreted as assuming that labor quantities or production costs are established prior to the act of exchange. We reverse this view by arguing that these factors are established through exchange itself, as individuals mutually evaluate the worth of their contributions under conditions of freedom, independence, and equality in their bargaining position. These conditions define Smith's account of exchange in th…
Agreement is money
Smith is the precursor of neither the orthodox nor the heterodox view of money. For him, money arose neither as medium of exchange out of barter, as in the orthodox view, nor as unit of account established by the state, as in the heterodox view. Instead, money emerges in that agreement on the valuation of mutual services in which exchange based on the desire for deserved credit consists. Money emerges in exchange, but, unlike the orthodox view, i…
The Birth of Homo Œconomicus
This paper proposes a genealogy of the concept of homo œconomicus as it emerged from the methodological debate on the economic agent of political economy. If John Stuart Mill gave birth to the economic man in his 1836 essay “On the Definition of Political Economy,” he certainly did not baptize him. The expression was introduced by Francis A. Walker after Mill passed away in the 1870s. Economic man acquired its Latin name of homo œconomicus under …
No need for society
Adam Smith saw in Pufendorf the idea of a sociability prior to government, arising from a perception of the advantages of cooperation in overcoming the alleged natural inability of human beings to provide for their needs. The idea of a principle of sociability independent of government was crucial to Smith, who also addressed since the beginning of the Wealth of Nations the advantages of cooperation. However, as this article intends to show, for …
Emancipation of all senses in Marx’s communist day
La critique de Marx et d’Engels à l’égard des descriptions dites utopiques de la société idéale remplaçant le capitalisme ne semble guère faire de doute. Cependant, un passage de L’ Idéologie allemande semble décrire une journée typique de la future société communiste. S’appuyant sur des études récentes préparatoires à l’édition de la MEGA 2 , cet article soutient que ce fameux passage peut être lu comme une confirmation de l’anti-utopisme d’Enge…
The Pleasure of Exchange
This article argues that the self-love that motivates exchange in The Wealth of Nations (WN) can be seen as the desire for deserved approval discussed by Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS). This often overlooked desire appears in TMS as the most representative kind of self-love. Exchange motivated by this desire emerges as the way to find confirmation through others’ appraisal of one’s own self-assessment, and thus to find an agre…
Adam Smith, Anti-Stoic
Commerce changes the production of wealth in a society as well as its ethics. What is appropriate in a non-commercial society is not necessarily appropriate in a commercial one. Adam Smith criticizes Stoic self-command in commercial societies, rather than embracing it, as is often suggested. He argues that Stoicism, with its promotion of indifference to passions, is an ethic appropriate for savages. Savages live in hard conditions where expressin…
Adam Smith, Anti-Stoic
Commerce changes the production of wealth in a society as well as its ethics. What is appropriate in a non-commercial society is not necessarily appropriate in a commercial one. Adam Smith criticizes Stoic self-command in commercial societies, rather than embracing it, as is often suggested. He argues that Stoicism, with its promotion of indifference to passions, is an ethic appropriate for savages. Savages live in hard conditions where expressin…
Adam Smith, Anti-Stoic
Commerce changes the production of wealth in a society as well as its ethics. What is appropriate in a non-commercial society is not necessarily appropriate in a commercial one. Adam Smith criticizes Stoic self-command in commercial societies, rather than embracing it, as is often suggested. He argues that Stoicism, with its promotion of indifference to passions, is an ethic appropriate for savages. Savages live in hard conditions where expressin…
The Pleasure of Exchange
This article argues that the self-love that motivates exchange in The Wealth of Nations (WN) can be seen as the desire for deserved approval discussed by Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS). This often overlooked desire appears in TMS as the most representative kind of self-love. Exchange motivated by this desire emerges as the way to find confirmation through others’ appraisal of one’s own self-assessment, and thus to find an agre…
Emancipation of all senses in Marx’s communist day
La critique de Marx et d’Engels à l’égard des descriptions dites utopiques de la société idéale remplaçant le capitalisme ne semble guère faire de doute. Cependant, un passage de L’ Idéologie allemande semble décrire une journée typique de la future société communiste. S’appuyant sur des études récentes préparatoires à l’édition de la MEGA 2 , cet article soutient que ce fameux passage peut être lu comme une confirmation de l’anti-utopisme d’Enge…
The Birth of Homo Œconomicus
This paper proposes a genealogy of the concept of homo œconomicus as it emerged from the methodological debate on the economic agent of political economy. If John Stuart Mill gave birth to the economic man in his 1836 essay “On the Definition of Political Economy,” he certainly did not baptize him. The expression was introduced by Francis A. Walker after Mill passed away in the 1870s. Economic man acquired its Latin name of homo œconomicus under …
No need for society
Adam Smith saw in Pufendorf the idea of a sociability prior to government, arising from a perception of the advantages of cooperation in overcoming the alleged natural inability of human beings to provide for their needs. The idea of a principle of sociability independent of government was crucial to Smith, who also addressed since the beginning of the Wealth of Nations the advantages of cooperation. However, as this article intends to show, for …
Agreement is money
Smith is the precursor of neither the orthodox nor the heterodox view of money. For him, money arose neither as medium of exchange out of barter, as in the orthodox view, nor as unit of account established by the state, as in the heterodox view. Instead, money emerges in that agreement on the valuation of mutual services in which exchange based on the desire for deserved credit consists. Money emerges in exchange, but, unlike the orthodox view, i…
The Wealth of Nations at 250
The 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations challenges us to ask whether, and to what extent, the interdisciplinary developments in Smith scholarship deepen our understanding of Smith's economic ideas; and whether they can allow us to recover a stronger sense of unity and coherence to his work, or instead bring into sharper view its tensions, ambivalences, and internal fractures. This special issue of HOPE seeks to illuminate the book anew by …
At the Origin of the Natural Price
Smith's theory of value is typically interpreted as assuming that labor quantities or production costs are established prior to the act of exchange. We reverse this view by arguing that these factors are established through exchange itself, as individuals mutually evaluate the worth of their contributions under conditions of freedom, independence, and equality in their bargaining position. These conditions define Smith's account of exchange in th…
Philosophy (6 works) · Adam smith (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Neoclassical economics (5 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (3 works) · Law (3 works)