Adam Smith has usually been seen as an economist who had a positive view of economic
inequalities and who was more concerned with diminishing absolute poverty rather than …

Adam Smith's discourse on wage labour is both original for its time and complex. While
Smith indisputably considered the substitution of serfdom by wage labour as an …

Cet article s' inscrit dans le prolongement direct de l'étude figurant dans ce même volume, et
intitulée De la guerre des disciplines à celle des paradigmes?. Cette étude, rappelons-le …

Adam Smith's view of the proper role for government in commercial societies remains a
source of debate. Here we sketch out in simple game-theoretic terms the numerous public …

We sketch out in simple game-theoretic terms the numerous public-goods provision and
externalities problems on display in particular in Book V of The Wealth of Nations. Casting …

Game theory is a branch of social sciences that formalizes decision-making in situations
where two or more individuals or groups interact, possibly having conflicting interests. In …

Cette contribution propose de montrer que l'étude scientifique des mœurs menée par Adam
Ferguson doit être saisie comme une approche globale du problème de l'ordre social. Sa …

Analysing the rhetorical structure of (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of) The Wealth of
Nations (Smith WN) and the political context of its publication, we make the case for the …

Analyzing the rhetorical structure of The Wealth of Nations (Smith WN) and its context, we
make the case for the central importance of its Book V," Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or …

Ce court mais dense essai sur Smith est la traduction de L'Économie des passions selon
Adam Smith paru deux ans plus tôt aux éditions Kimé. Au sein d'une littérature secondaire …