What are the causes of prosperity? In addition to the division of labor, saving, capital
accumulation, and good institutions, Adam Smith explains opulence through vanity and luck …

In the eighteenth-century Scottish and British cultural context, idleness was a central issue
for religion, literature, art, and philosophy. This paper analyzes the reflections of David …

This paper aims to show that Smith's theory of sympathy and the impartial spectator can be
understood as an attempt to overcome the selfish anthropology advocated by Mandeville …

Recent studies have investigated connections between Adam Smith's economic and
philosophical ideas and Catholic Social Teaching (CST). Scholars argue that their common …

Adam Smith vigorously uses methodological individualism, but his individuals are radically
social and entangled with each other. All social phenomena and institutions, for Smith, are …

This innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness–a condition
associated with severe health consequences, including increased morbidity and early …

What explains the ambition to get rich? Adam Smith is clear that commercial ambition, the
passionate desire for great wealth, is not simply a desire to satisfy one's material needs. His …

Smith is the precursor of neither the orthodox nor the heterodox view of money. For him,
money arose neither as medium of exchange out of barter, as in the orthodox view, nor as …

This chapter describes in what sense Smith's conception of human nature can be defined in
different ways, and how it is related to some tendencies and desires, such as sociability …

For Smith, the historical process is indispensable for understanding in what sense and to
what extent we can speak of harmony between the individual self and others. Indeed, the …