The differences on value between Smith and Menger may be other from previously alleged if
status is included as a need satisfied only by truly scarce goods. Given our innate desire to …

Adam Smith has usually been seen as an economist who had a positive view of economic
inequalities and who was more concerned with diminishing absolute poverty rather than …

Cet article étudie la façon dont Adam Smith répond à Mandeville dans sa Théorie des
Sentiments Moraux sur le rôle de la vanité et de l'orgueil dans la dynamique économique et …

In this chapter, Benoît Walraevens investigates the possible “dialogue” between two
eighteenth-century masterpieces on international politics and trade: Wealth of Nations …

Cet article propose une lecture croisée de Smith et de Rawls afin mettre en exergue le rôle
fondamental de la sympathie, des sentiments moraux et de l'idée de réciprocité qu'ils …

Our contemporary culture has been labelled as one of “greed.” Our challenge, it is argued, is
even more formidable if we recall Rousseau's argument that it is the desire for esteem and …

In Scripture, the Legal or Jewish Oeconomy is that system of Laws or Observations, that
Nation or People were obliged to perform and observe both in their Religious and Moral …

This symposium represents the second collection of papers drawn from the joint meeting of
the International Adam Smith Society and the Rousseau Association held at the University of …

Rousseau is consistently mistrustful of money. He studies its nature and its functions,
stressing that it cannot be identified with real wealth. Money, for Rousseau, is merely a sign …

This chapter contributes to a more balanced view of the French reception of the Theory of
Moral Sentiments by looking at the interpretation favoured by de Grouchy's reviewer, Pierre …