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Commerce and strangers in Adam Smith

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Commerce and strangers in Adam Smith/ by Shinji Nohara.
Author:	Nohara, Shinji.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore : : 2018.,
Description:	xi, 192 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Classical school of economics - History. -
Subject:	Europe - Economic integration. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-9014-1
ISBN:	9789811090141

Commerce and strangers in Adam Smith
Nohara, Shinji.

Commerce and strangers in Adam Smith[electronic resource] /by Shinji Nohara. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2018. - xi, 192 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Introduction -- Travel literature and the Enlightenment world -- Fellows an strangers in The Theory of Moral Sentiments -- Adam Smith on the cyclicity of the rise and fall of civilization -- Smith on money and the impact of encountering strangers on Europe -- Adam Smith on markets -- Encountering the world in The Wealth of Nations -- Conclusion.

This book offers unique insights into how Adam Smith understood globalization, and examines how he incorporated his knowledge of the world and globalization into his classical political economy. Although Smith lived in society that was far from globalized, he experienced the beginning of globalization. Smith considered the most developed society the commercial society: the society that results from people meeting with strangers. Among Enlightenment thinkers, Smith was one of the most important figures with respect to interaction in the world, and it is through his lens that the authors view the impact of the mixing of diverse peoples. Firstly, the book describes how Smith was influenced by information from around the world. Leaving eighteenth-century Europe, including Smith's native Scotland, people travelled, traded, and immigrated to far-flung parts of the globe, sometimes writing books and pamphlets about their travels. Informed by these writers, Smith took into consideration the world beyond Europe and strangers with non-European backgrounds. Against that background, the book reinterprets Smith's moral philosophy. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith developed his moral philosophy, in which he examined how people form opinions through their meetings with strangers. He researched how encounters with strangers created the sharing of social rules. As such, the book studies how Smith believed that people in dissimilar communities come to share common concepts of morality and justice. Lastly, it provides an innovative reading of Smith's political economy. In The Wealth of Nations, Smith established the market model of economic society. However, he saw the limitations of that model since it does not consider the impact of money on economy and international trade. He also recognized the limitations of his own equilibrium theory of market, the theory that is still influential today.

ISBN: 9789811090141

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-10-9014-1doiSubjects--Personal Names:

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Smith, Adam,
1723-1790.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1204676
Classical school of economics
--History.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

556604
Europe
--Economic integration.

LC Class. No.: HB103.S6 / N643 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 330.153

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