Spencer J Pack
Biographic Data
| ID | 954610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Spencer J Pack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Spencer J |
| FAMILY NAME | Pack |
| SIGNATURE | PACK S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Connecticut College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
S. Todd Lowry (1927–2023)
S. Todd Lowry quietly passed away April 10, 2023, at his home in Lexington, Virginia, after a brief illness. He was ninety-five.Todd was the esteemed Book Review Editor of HOPE for much of its early days—from 1974 to 1999—a quarter of a century. He was also a member of the HOPE Advisory Board for many years, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology for decades.Todd was a kind, gentl…
Adam Smith and Marx
This chapter outlines Marx’s general attitude towards Smith. It argues that Marx was a close reader of and that he generally admired Smith’s work. The chapter outlines how Marx criticizes various aspects of Smith’s thought and then develops them as a part of his own theory. Topics covered include value theory and the development of money and capital. The chapter then moves on to discuss their views of the development of character and argues that …
A History of Heterodox Economics
Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx
Spencer Pack compares and contrasts Aristotle's, Smith's and Marx's theoretical systems on six fundamental issues: exchange value, money, capital, character, government, and change. This book also provides insights on issues concerning the continuing development of world money, saving, managerial capitalism, corrupt governments, and various secular and religious movements for social change.
Smith's Humean Criticism of Hume's Account of the Origin of Justice
It is argued that Adam Smith criticizes David Hume's account of the origin of and continuing adherence to the rule of law for being not sufficiently Humean. Hume explained that adherence to the rule of law originated in the self-interest to restrain self-interest. According to Smith, Hume does not pay enough attention to the passions of resentment and admiration, which have their source in the imagination. Smith's offers a more naturalistic and e…
Entrepreneurs, Institutions, and Economic Change
Book Review| March 01 2000 Entrepreneurs, Institutions, and Economic Change: The Economic Thought of J. A. Schumpeter (l905-1925) By Nicolo De Vecchi. Translated by Anne Stone. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, l995. 192 pp. $80.00 Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 172–173. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-172 Views Icon Views Article contents F…
Social Limits to Economic Theory
Book Review| March 01 2000 Social Limits to Economic Theory By Jon Mulberg. New York: Routledge, l995. 200 pp. $19.95. Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 174–175. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-174 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email To…
Aristotle's Economic Thought
Other| June 01 1998 Aristotle's Economic Thought Scott Meikle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 216 pp. $45.00. Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (2): 365–368. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-30-2-365 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Spencer J. Pack; Aristotle's Economic Thought. History of Political Econo…
Rothbard, Economic Thought before Adam Smith
Other| June 01 1997 Rothbard, Economic Thought before Adam Smith: An Australian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1 and Rothbard, Classical Economics: An Australian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 2. Vol. 2 Murray N. Rothbard. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1995. 528 pp. $99.95. Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 …
Ross, The Life of Adam Smith and Muller, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours
Other| March 01 1997 Ross, The Life of Adam Smith and Muller, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours Jerry Z. Muller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. 272 pp. $14.95. Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (1): 170–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-29-1-170 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Spencer J. Pack; Ro…
"Theological (and Hence Economic) Implications of Adam Smith's "Principles which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries
Research Article| June 01 1995 Theological (and Hence Economic) Implications of Adam Smith's "Principles which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries" Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (2): 289–307. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-27-2-289 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share…
Capitalism as a Moral System
Capitalism as a Moral System
Journal Article Capitalism as a Moral System: Adam Smith's Critique of the Free Market Economy. Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism Get access Capitalism as a Moral System: Adam Smith's Critique of the Free Market Economy. By Spencer J. Pack. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. viii + 199. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 85278 442 3.)Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism. By Patricia H. Werhane. (Oxford and New York: Oxford Universi…
Adam Smith and his Legacy for Modern Capitalism
Other| June 01 1993 Adam Smith and his Legacy for Modern Capitalism Patricia H. Werhane. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 219 pp. $29.95 Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (2): 380–382. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-25-2-380 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Spencer J. Pack; Adam…
Marx's Crises Theory
Other| November 01 1991 Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor, and Finance Michael Perelman. New York: Praeger Press, 1987. 250 pp. $42.95. Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (4): 775–777. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-23-4-775 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Spencer J. Pack; Marx's Cr…
Toward a Jewish Component of the Rainbow Coalition; Do Not Dump on the Unoites; A Reply to Spencer Pack
What follows was inspired by the interchange between Vicente Navarro and Sheila Collins on the Rainbow Coalition (MR, June 1987) and the prominent role Jesse Jackson plays in the Democratic presidential race. The contributions of Navarro and Collins made this long-time reader of Monthly Review aware that the Rainbow Coalition, which is largely focused around the Jackson presidential campaign has the potential to "expand its electoral base" and be…
Schumpeter Plus Optimism Equals Gilder (ceteris paribus)
Research Article| September 01 1987 Schumpeter Plus Optimism Equals Gilder (ceteris paribus) Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1987) 19 (3): 469–480. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-19-3-469 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Spencer J. Pack; Schumpeter Plus Optimism Equals Gilder (ceteris paribus)…
Aristotle and the Problem of Insatiable Desires
Aristotle, desire, William S. Kern
"Theological (and Hence Economic) Implications of Adam Smith's "Principles which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries
Research Article| June 01 1995 Theological (and Hence Economic) Implications of Adam Smith's "Principles which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries" Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (2): 289–307. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-27-2-289 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share…
Smith's Humean Criticism of Hume's Account of the Origin of Justice
It is argued that Adam Smith criticizes David Hume's account of the origin of and continuing adherence to the rule of law for being not sufficiently Humean. Hume explained that adherence to the rule of law originated in the self-interest to restrain self-interest. According to Smith, Hume does not pay enough attention to the passions of resentment and admiration, which have their source in the imagination. Smith's offers a more naturalistic and e…
Aristotle and the Problem of Insatiable Desires
Aristotle, desire, William S. Kern
Capitalism as a Moral System
Journal Article Capitalism as a Moral System: Adam Smith's Critique of the Free Market Economy. Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism Get access Capitalism as a Moral System: Adam Smith's Critique of the Free Market Economy. By Spencer J. Pack. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. viii + 199. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 85278 442 3.)Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism. By Patricia H. Werhane. (Oxford and New York: Oxford Universi…
Aristotle and the Problem of Insatiable Desires
Aristotle, desire, William S. Kern
Schumpeter Plus Optimism Equals Gilder (ceteris paribus)
Research Article| September 01 1987 Schumpeter Plus Optimism Equals Gilder (ceteris paribus) Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1987) 19 (3): 469–480. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-19-3-469 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Spencer J. Pack; Schumpeter Plus Optimism Equals Gilder (ceteris paribus)…
Toward a Jewish Component of the Rainbow Coalition; Do Not Dump on the Unoites; A Reply to Spencer Pack
What follows was inspired by the interchange between Vicente Navarro and Sheila Collins on the Rainbow Coalition (MR, June 1987) and the prominent role Jesse Jackson plays in the Democratic presidential race. The contributions of Navarro and Collins made this long-time reader of Monthly Review aware that the Rainbow Coalition, which is largely focused around the Jackson presidential campaign has the potential to "expand its electoral base" and be…
Marx's Crises Theory
Other| November 01 1991 Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor, and Finance Michael Perelman. New York: Praeger Press, 1987. 250 pp. $42.95. Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (4): 775–777. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-23-4-775 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Spencer J. Pack; Marx's Cr…
Capitalism as a Moral System
Journal Article Capitalism as a Moral System: Adam Smith's Critique of the Free Market Economy. Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism Get access Capitalism as a Moral System: Adam Smith's Critique of the Free Market Economy. By Spencer J. Pack. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. viii + 199. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 85278 442 3.)Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism. By Patricia H. Werhane. (Oxford and New York: Oxford Universi…
Adam Smith and his Legacy for Modern Capitalism
Other| June 01 1993 Adam Smith and his Legacy for Modern Capitalism Patricia H. Werhane. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 219 pp. $29.95 Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (2): 380–382. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-25-2-380 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Spencer J. Pack; Adam…
Capitalism as a Moral System
"Theological (and Hence Economic) Implications of Adam Smith's "Principles which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries
Research Article| June 01 1995 Theological (and Hence Economic) Implications of Adam Smith's "Principles which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries" Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (2): 289–307. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-27-2-289 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share…
Rothbard, Economic Thought before Adam Smith
Other| June 01 1997 Rothbard, Economic Thought before Adam Smith: An Australian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1 and Rothbard, Classical Economics: An Australian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 2. Vol. 2 Murray N. Rothbard. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1995. 528 pp. $99.95. Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 …
Ross, The Life of Adam Smith and Muller, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours
Other| March 01 1997 Ross, The Life of Adam Smith and Muller, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours Jerry Z. Muller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. 272 pp. $14.95. Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (1): 170–172. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-29-1-170 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Spencer J. Pack; Ro…
Aristotle's Economic Thought
Other| June 01 1998 Aristotle's Economic Thought Scott Meikle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 216 pp. $45.00. Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (2): 365–368. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-30-2-365 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Spencer J. Pack; Aristotle's Economic Thought. History of Political Econo…
Entrepreneurs, Institutions, and Economic Change
Book Review| March 01 2000 Entrepreneurs, Institutions, and Economic Change: The Economic Thought of J. A. Schumpeter (l905-1925) By Nicolo De Vecchi. Translated by Anne Stone. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, l995. 192 pp. $80.00 Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 172–173. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-172 Views Icon Views Article contents F…
Social Limits to Economic Theory
Book Review| March 01 2000 Social Limits to Economic Theory By Jon Mulberg. New York: Routledge, l995. 200 pp. $19.95. Spencer J. Pack Spencer J. Pack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 174–175. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-174 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email To…
Smith's Humean Criticism of Hume's Account of the Origin of Justice
It is argued that Adam Smith criticizes David Hume's account of the origin of and continuing adherence to the rule of law for being not sufficiently Humean. Hume explained that adherence to the rule of law originated in the self-interest to restrain self-interest. According to Smith, Hume does not pay enough attention to the passions of resentment and admiration, which have their source in the imagination. Smith's offers a more naturalistic and e…
Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx
Spencer Pack compares and contrasts Aristotle's, Smith's and Marx's theoretical systems on six fundamental issues: exchange value, money, capital, character, government, and change. This book also provides insights on issues concerning the continuing development of world money, saving, managerial capitalism, corrupt governments, and various secular and religious movements for social change.
A History of Heterodox Economics
Adam Smith and Marx
This chapter outlines Marx’s general attitude towards Smith. It argues that Marx was a close reader of and that he generally admired Smith’s work. The chapter outlines how Marx criticizes various aspects of Smith’s thought and then develops them as a part of his own theory. Topics covered include value theory and the development of money and capital. The chapter then moves on to discuss their views of the development of character and argues that …
S. Todd Lowry (1927–2023)
S. Todd Lowry quietly passed away April 10, 2023, at his home in Lexington, Virginia, after a brief illness. He was ninety-five.Todd was the esteemed Book Review Editor of HOPE for much of its early days—from 1974 to 1999—a quarter of a century. He was also a member of the HOPE Advisory Board for many years, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology for decades.Todd was a kind, gentl…
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