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 …

In 1776 Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations, a book so foundational it has
led to him being called the'father of economics'. Today he is associated with the promotion of …

While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and
philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in the social sciences. This book …

Due to theoretical shortcomings, most of the literature that examines the impact of religion on
economic well-being fails to distinguish between the religion and the religion constituents …

Ever since the global financial crisis of 2008, interpreted by some observers as a
foreseeable failure of" unfettered" capitalism, the German intellectual tradition of …

Adam Smith (1723–1790) is famous around the world as the founding father of economics,
and his ideas are regularly quoted and invoked by politicians, business leaders, economists …

This essay examines Grouchy's translation of the Theory of Moral Sentiments along with her
critical commentary on Smith's moral philosophy: The Letters on Sympathy. In this paper, we …

Adam Smith's engagement with China and Tartary is a central yet underappreciated element
of his economic and political thought. This article reconstructs this engagement and …

This paper aims to defend Adam Smith's ideas of taxation via moral philosophical
approaches. In the conventional interpretation such a view is assumed to be inconsistent …

Introduction Some notions are so often taken for granted that we sometimes forget their
origin. For example, it seems obvious today that human evolution has proceeded from the …