Adam Smith's System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue
The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19926229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Athol Fitzgibbons (Griffith University, Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Publication date | 1997-11-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Adam Smith's System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/0198292880.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2499089682 |
| ISBN | 9780198292883 |
| Open Library | OL1116507M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Adam Smith's System is a study in classical economic thought and methodology. It portrays Adam Smith as a Stoic philosopher who wanted virtue to be relevant to this life rather than to the next. His central purpose was to define a set of laws, a jurisprudence in the widest possible sense, which would permit economic and political liberalism to proceed without triggering long‐run moral degeneration. Smith argued that the conflict between morals and wealth was only apparent, because it was possible to synthesize the seeming contraries with better laws and moral rules. All of Smith's writings are analysed, including his writings on morals and methodology, art and rhetoric, and his political and economic writings. The relevance of Wealth of Nations is analysed, and Smith's theories of free trade and economic growth are put into context. It is shown that Smith was primarily concerned with the very broad intellectual endeavour to replace the Aristotelian world‐view, the bulwark and inspiration of medieval Christian thought, with an outlook that was more consistent with Newtonian science
Adam smith · Classical liberalism · Context (archaeology) · Economic liberalism · Economics · Epistemology · Invisible hand · Jurisprudence · Law and economics · Liberalism · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Relevance (law) · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Virtue · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · 18th century · adam Smith (1723-1790) · Business & Economics · Classical school of economics · Economische filosofie · Inquiry into the nature and the causes of the wealth of nations (Smith) · Moral and ethical aspects · Moral and ethical aspects of Economics · Theory
Adam Smith on Morality, Justice Andthe Political Constitution of Liberty
Les notions d’ordre, de théodicée et de système chez Augustin et Smith
Les ambiguïtés du commerce équitable
El problema de Smith y la relación entre moral y economía
Adam Smith, Stoicism and religion in the 18th century
In What Sense Christian
Individual motivations, emergent complexity and the just city
Famine
The Scottish Political Economy Tradition and Modern Economics
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
Scepticism, priestcraft, and toleration
Encyclopedias and the diffusion of knowledge
Political languages of the French Revolution
The theory of institutions and collective action in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments
Cameralism and the sciences of the state
Social contract theory and its critics
The comparative study of regimes and societies
Mere Inventions of the Imagination
| Citations per year | 0.62 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |