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Self-interest before Adam Smith : = a genealogy of economic science /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Self-interest before Adam Smith :/ Pierre Force.
Reminder of title:	a genealogy of economic science /
Author:	Force, Pierre,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Economics - History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490538
ISBN:	9780511490538 (ebook)

Self-interest before Adam Smith : = a genealogy of economic science /
Force, Pierre,

Self-interest before Adam Smith :a genealogy of economic science /Pierre Force. - 1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Ideas in context ;68. - Ideas in context ;75..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, was the triumph of the 'selfish hypothesis' (the idea that self-interest is the motive of human action). Yet, as a neo-Epicurean idea, this hypothesis had been a matter of controversy for over a century and Smith opposed it from a neo-Stoic point of view. But how can the Epicurean principles of orthodox economic theory be reconciled with the Stoic principles of Adam Smith's philosophy? Pierre Force shows how Smith's theory refutes the 'selfish hypothesis' and integrates it at the same time. He also explains how Smith appropriated Rousseau's 'republican' critique of modern commercial society, and makes the case that the autonomy of economic science is an unintended consequence of Smith's 'republican' principles.

ISBN: 9780511490538 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

556640
Economics
--History.

LC Class. No.: HB75 / .F67 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 330.15

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