Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Epistemology not Ideology....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Adam Smith as a Scottish Philosopher....Pages 17-36
Friendship in Commercial Society Revisited: Adam Smith on Commercial Friendship....Pages 37-53
Adam Smith and French Political Economy: Parallels and Differences....Pages 54-74
Adam Smith: Eighteenth-Century Polymath....Pages 75-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Indulgent Sympathy and the Impartial Spectator....Pages 95-117
Adam Smith on Sensory Perception: A Sympathetic Account....Pages 118-135
Adam Smith on Sympathy: From Self-Interest to Empathy....Pages 136-146
What My Dog Can Do: On the Effect of The Wealth of Nations I.ii.2....Pages 147-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Metaphor Made Manifest: Taking Seriously Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’....Pages 169-197
The ‘Invisible Hand’ Phenomenon in Economics....Pages 198-222
Instincts and the Invisible Order: The Possibility of Progress....Pages 223-239
Two Invisible Hands: Family, Markets, and the Adam Smith Problem....Pages 240-253
Smith, Justice, and the Scope of the Political....Pages 254-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-283