This paper presents a quantitative investigation into the history of economic thought (het).
Building on previous work (Marcuzzo 2008; 2012), we propose an empirical study with the …

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 …

Adam Smith was born 300 years ago, in June 1723. The son of a Scottish lawyer and
customs commissioner grew to become a great Enlightenment thinker who gained global …

This paper investigates the rather neglected relevance of persuasion in Smith's corpus and
its foundational character. Smith's permanent and comprehensive concern with persuasion …

Fifty years past AW Coats's (1969)“Research Priorities in the History of Economics”—the first
article in History of Political Economy (HOPE)—the opportunity arises to check how such …

Our survey is not exhaustive: it does not include every one of the 420 articles we identified
as pertaining to the history of economics in the journals mentioned above. However, a look …

This chapter considers the view of Adam Smith on the condition of the poor and their place
within society. It focuses on the logic of the arguments themselves, not context: the way to …

This contribution advances a critical examination of Smith's thought in theological
perspective, with a point of departure in a recent interpretation of the 'invisible hand.'We …

Why should we read a book printed 240 years ago? The book is old. Our circumstances and
institutions are different. Its examples are dated. Its policies are irrelevant today. Its economic …

Experimental evolution is difficult to apply to humans because of the need to study possible
changes over many generations. A similar method, though, may see history as a substitute …