Adam Smith and Economic Science

The work was first published in Dutch in 1995. This is a modified version which has been translated well. The author informs us that the references have not been updated although he does mention Jeffrey Young's recent work on economics as a moral science. There is, in fact, a very extensive bibliography but with some curious omissions. Given the interest in the methodology of interpretation and the attempt to take into account some recent developments in literary theory, it is surprising that Vivienne Brown's Adam Smith's Discourse (1994) is not cited. While giving welcome attention to the essay on Astronomy, where Smith offered his views as to the principles which lead and direct philosophical inquiry, Peil has very little to say about the theory of communication (dialogue?) which Smith developed in his lectures on Rhetoric. In view of the ways in which Smith's economic analyses are handled, it should be noted that no mention is made of Amitai Etzioni's The Moral Dimension (1988) nor of Allen Oakley's Classical Economic Man (1994). But there is a great deal of material here, which unfolds at a number of levels

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