The Passion of Self-interest
The Development of the Idea and Its Changing Status
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2769165 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce B Suttle (Parkland College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 459-472 |
| Publication date | 1987-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1987.tb01994.x |
| OpenAlex | W2057635795 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Contemporaries who evoke the passion of self-interest and cite Adam Smith as its most prominent defender have exhibited little appreciation for the speckled history of this passion. Moreover, they have demonstrated little awareness of how Smith did not view this passion as a virtue. Some of the major reasons are explained for the changes in our attitude toward self interest. A philosophical refutation of the thesis that self-interest is our only motive for acting as we do is offered and the record is set straight on how Smith viewed the State's role in imposing limits on, and giving direction to, self-interest as a testimony to man's failure at self-legislation. Today the contenders for power-the special interests-are pitted against the guardians of public order
Adam smith · Aesthetics · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Legislation · Neoclassical economics · Order (exchange) · Passion · Political science · Power (physics) · Public interest · Self-interest · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Virtue · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Social Issues and Policies · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
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| Citation span | 2003 - 2021 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |