The “Sympathetic Market-Exchange” Thesis in Adam Smith Scholarship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19214649 |
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| Authors | Vanessa Brown (0000-0002-3622-7835, The Open Group, corresponding author), Vivienne Brown (The Open Group, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182702-12636604 |
| OpenAlex | W7163908604 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This article critically addresses the “sympathetic market-exchange” thesis in Adam Smith scholarship, which is the interpretative thesis that posits an analogy between sympathy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and market exchange in the Wealth of Nations such that there is a moral dimension to market exchange
Adam smith · Analogy · Dimension (graph theory) · Invisible hand · Scholarship · Sympathy · Economic Theory and Institutions · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Highly cited | No |
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