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La unidad del pensamiento de Adam Smith como marco de comprensión de su propuesta jurídica. Una reflexión desde América latina
2019
La unidad del pensamiento de Adam Smith como marco de comprensión de su propuesta jurídica. Una reflexión desde América Latina Por Juan Camilo Salas Cardona Resumen Las inmensas riquezas que poseen América Latina y El Caribe, en lo que se refiere a sus gentes, su cultura, su biodiversidad, belleza y variedad geográfica, así como a los recursos de toda especie que provee la tierra, contrastan con la pobreza, miseria, violencia, corrupción, crisis económica, desempleo e inestabilidad política en que vive buena parte la región, desde el mal llamado descubrimiento de América, también denominado “encuentro de dos mundos”, ocurrido hace un poco más de cinco siglos. Estas circunstancias, que, con …
INTELLECTUAL FILTERS AND THE DISSEMINATION OF SMITHIANISM AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE
2020
Adfam Smith’s thought reached every corner of the world in a short lapse of time but made its entrance through institutional, cultural, linguistic, religious and political filters. These filters are not neutral and affected the reading, understanding and use of Smithian ideas. I chose the keyword ‘intellectual filters’ to denote all of the contextual elements whose influence determines whether and how a foreign paradigm penetrates a country and creates its effects.
Adam Smith Across the World. The spread of his thought and the intellectual filters.
2020
Recensione di Maria Pia Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen and Craig Smith (eds), Adam Smith and Rousseau. Ethics, Politics, Economics, Edinburgh, Edinbu…
2019
The role of punishment in the works of Adam Smith
2009
The reformation of criminal justice is one of the great themes in Enlightenment culture and concerned its main exponents from Montesquieu to Beccaria, Filangieri, Bentham. One of the traits of greater modernity in the theories worked out by juridical Enlightenment is the resort to the utilitarianinspired economic analysis. Adam Smith doesn't back out of this scientific and civil commitment, but his doctrine appears significantly different though contemporary to juridical Enlightenment, and is also based on economic argumentations. In this work we will look through the main writings which contain the Smithian thought in search of those parts dealing with the theme of punishment and its socia…
Consumption patterns, development and growth: Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Robert Malthus
2003
In this paper we combine the classical analysis of luxury consumption with the classical theories of development and growth. We also focus on the role played, within classical economics, by institutional factors such as the structure of property rights and contractual arrangements in determining consumption patterns and investment in agriculture. In particular, we show that Ricardo's and Malthus' different views on the role of consumption expenditure in promoting growth depend on Ricardo's acceptance (Malthus' refusal) of Say's law of markets and on Ricardo's exclusion (Malthus' inclusion) of a non-commodity option such as leisure from (in) the range of available consumption alternatives.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: ADAM SMITH’S THEORY OF SENTIMENTAL LAW AND ECONOMICS
2020
For Adam Smith, a crime is not the result of a rational calculation of loss and gain but the consequence of envy and a vain desire to parade wealth to attract the approbation of others, combined with a natural systematic bias in overestimating the probability of success. Similarly, Smith does not conceive of legal sanctions as a rational deterrent but as deriving from the feeling of resentment. While the prevailing approach of the eighteenth century is a rational explanation of crime and a utilitarian use of punishment, Adam Smith instead builds his theory of criminal behavior and legal prosecution consistently on the sentiments. A well-functioning legal system is thus an unintended consequ…
Fleabag's Ethical Investigations
2020
Fleabag is a television series created and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who also stars as the eponymous character. The television series was produced by Two Brothers Pictures and consists of two seasons of six episodes, each lasting around 25 minutes; the first season (2016) was produced for BBC Three whilst the second season (2019) for BBC Three and for Amazon Studios. Fleabag has conquered the heart of audiences all over the world, has received universal critical acclaim, has been presented with many accolades, and has been awarded several prizes. I see Fleabag as a primer on ethics, a compendium of some relevant themes of moral philosophy. The two-season television series is steeped …
Smithian Growth and Complexity
2016
In this paper we argue that Adam Smith’s theory of division and labor and economic growth, in particular through the developments of Alfred Marshall, Allyn Young and Nicholas Kaldor, has characteristics that allow to classify it in the realm of complexity economics. We support this claim by a historical reconstruction of the Smithian growth theory highlighting the characteristics that we show also characterize complex systems. We compare this perspective with the one developed by the traditional economic approach, rooted in general equilibrium, and describe a simple alternative model
Adam Smith on Monopoly Theory. Making good a lacuna
2014
This article analyses Adam Smith's views on monopoly by focusing on Book IV and V of The Wealth of Nations. It argues that the majority of scholars have assessed Smith's analysis of monopoly starting from premises different from those, actually though implicitly, used by Smith. We show that Smith makes use of the word 'monopoly' to refer to a heterogeneous collection of market outcomes, besides that of a single seller market, and that Smith's account of monopolists' behaviour is richer than that provided by later theorists. We also show that Smith was aware of the growth-retarding effect of monopoly and urged State regulation. © 2014 Scottish Economic Society.