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Machines, Bodies and Invisible Hands = Metaphors of Order and Economic Theory in Adam Smith /

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正題名/作者:	Machines, Bodies and Invisible Hands/ by Stefano Fiori.
其他題名:	Metaphors of Order and Economic Theory in Adam Smith /
作者:	Fiori, Stefano.
面頁冊數:	IX, 242 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Social Theory. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85206-1
ISBN:	9783030852061

Machines, Bodies and Invisible Hands = Metaphors of Order and Economic Theory in Adam Smith /
Fiori, Stefano.

Machines, Bodies and Invisible HandsMetaphors of Order and Economic Theory in Adam Smith /[electronic resource] :by Stefano Fiori. - 1st ed. 2021. - IX, 242 p.online resource.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Machines, Bodies, and Invisible Hands -- Chapter 2. Metaphors as conceptual tools -- Chapter 3. The metaphor of the machine -- Chapter 4. Smith and the organic metaphors -- Chapter 5. The invisible hand -- Part 2. Visible and Invisible Orders: The Secrets of Organization -- Chapter 6. Paradigms of Order in the Seventeenth Century: Intelligibility as Visibility -- Chapter 7. The Invisible Order: Imagination, Nature, and the Economic Sphere -- Chapter 8. Organization and Invisible Forces in the Life Sciences of the Late Eighteenth Century -- Part 3. Forms and Experiences of Time -- Chapter 9. Time and Social Order -- Chapter 10. Conclusions.

What was Adam Smith’s intellectual laboratory? How did his economic theory take shape? Were his metaphors of order only residual and ornamental expressions? This book answers these questions by analyzing the formation of the concepts of market and social order in Adam Smith’s work, by considering various aspects of his approach. It analyzes how metaphors and pre-analytical concepts influenced Smith’s theory. In line with studies that deal with the cognitive role of metaphors in science, this book suggests that in Smith’s work metaphors provided a framework, on which basis the theory subsequently developed. Therefore, as such they were part of that intellectual process which made possible the formation of structured concepts. The content and scope of the book permits a more comprehensive interpretation of Smith’s thought, in which many aspects of his work are taken into consideration in order to explain a crucial problem for Smith: the nature and causes of social and economic order. The book also shows that in general, formation of theories is a complex process that includes pre-analytical views as non-residual parts of inquiry. Stefano Fiori teaches economics in the Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis” University of Torino, Italy. His research fields focus on the history of economic thought and on the connection between philosophy, economics, and other social sciences, viewed in historical perspective. His scientific interests include pre-classical and classical economics, Austrian economics, institutional and new institutional economics, economic methodology, and theories of bounded rationality.

ISBN: 9783030852061

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-85206-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Social Theory.

LC Class. No.: HC10-1085

Dewey Class. No.: 330.1509

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