… Routledge Philosophersis a major series of introductions to the great Western philosophers.
Each book places a major philosopher or thinker in historical context, explains and …

… that we admire the beauty of the systematic explanation). Once someone has provided us
… them for the manner in which they are systematically arranged to produce the desired result. …

… That figure was Adam Smith, of whom he writes: “We have the satisfaction, you see, to
know the principle on which our charity schools are founded, is not without an advocate in a …

… The systematic thinking of Adam Smith28 is consistently present in all his works, both published
during his lifetime as well as those published posthumously, and it consists in rigorously …

… Scottish moral philosopher and political economist Adam Smith. The term “free government”
comes up several times in the Wealth of Nations (WN) and in the student notes of Smith’s …

… Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual
historians to rethink him—and why he matters Adam Smith … as a moral philosopher—one …

This article analyses the use of the term “‘political oeconomy” in the Wealth of Nations,
considered by many the founding text of the discipline of Political Economy. It shows that Adam …

… Adam Smith as a “Chicago-style” economist, and it challenges the idea that the “Chicago
Smith” is simply a misinterpretation of Smith’… a distinct vision of Adam Smith, not only within the …

… What does Adam Smith mean by “good government”? How is it related to his political
economy and system of natural liberty? No extensive or specific treatment of these hermeneutical …

… I then suggested that we use Adam Smith’s metaphor of the invisible hand as a helpful
name for the cases where an author suggests that the spontaneous order that arises from …