Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's
founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and …

This book explores and compares the works of two great economists and philosophers,
David Hume and Adam Smith, considering their contributions to language, perception …

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers shows an
engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with …

Hume's theory of preferences would, from a contemporary point of view, be labelled an
endogenous theory. He sees preferences largely as comparative desires that are formed …

David Hume opposes banks and favors hoarding. The only bank he reluctantly approves of
is a public, 100% reserve bank. Other banks increase money supply and prices, hindering …

If war is an inevitable condition of human nature, as David Hume suggests, then what type of
societies can best protect us from defeat and conquest? For David Hume, commerce …

Attacks against the pursuit of profit in eighteenth-century Britain have been largely read as
reactions against market activity in general or as critiques of financial innovation. In The …

Abstract What is “the Tax State”? This chapter contributes to the questions of historical
development, theoretical definition, and sociopolitical problematization of the so-called tax …

In his Lectures at the Collège de France in 1978 and 1979, Foucault studies the genesis of
the idea of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth century (Spector 2014, 93). He states …

Entgegen der gängigen Annahme behaupten zwei der bekanntesten Befürworter des
internationalen Handels und internationaler Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, Adam Smith und …