Adam Smith and Modernity -

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This volume features 19 original essays on Adam Smith's conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations....

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The Order of Discourse 1. Adam Smith and Spontaneous Order Craig Smith 2. Systems, Love of System and Modernity Jean-Daniel Boyer 3. Adam Smith as a Historian of Economic Thought Fritz S?llner The Virtues of Modern Man 4. Adam Smith on Self-command: Utility, Dignity, and Sympathy Ryan Patrick Hanley 5. The Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: Irony, Laughter and Ridicule in Adam Smith Spyridon Tegos 6. Smith and Hume on Imagination and Sympathy Stefano Fiori 7. Adam Smith and the Creative Role of Imagination Keith Hankins and Brennan McDavid 8. Adam Smith on Natural Education and Moral Conscience Riccardo Bonfiglioli Ethics and Economics 9. Adam Smith and a Theory of Just Efficiency Mar?a Alejandra Carrasco and Maria Pia Paganelli 10. The Ego-Alter-Tertius-Paradigm: Adam Smith's Interaction Model Eleonore Kalisch 11. Did Adam Smith Hold a Labour Theory of Value? Beaver and Deer Hunters in the Early State Jeffrey T. Young 12. Endogenous Ethics: Smith's Real Contribution to the Enlightenment Amos Witztum Theory and Critique of Commercial Society 13. The Poor Man's Son: Deception in Adam Smith's Case for Free Enterprise James R. Otteson 14. Whose Adam Smith? The Limits of Law's Action Agust?n Jos? Men?ndez 15. Work and Freedom in Adam Smith: Limits of Historical Experience Maria Luisa Pesante The Problem of History 16. History Without Providence? Adam Smith - Historian and Critic of Modernity Alberto Burgio 17. Specialization and Commercial Modernity: Adam Smith as Sociologist Lisa Hill 18. Smith and the Savages in The Wealth of Nations, or the Anthropology of Political Economy Roberto Marchionatti 19. On the Nature and Causes of Trade and the Progress of Civilization Leonidas Montes