The two faces of Adam Smith.
Adam Smith's two main works, Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, are based on seemingly contradictory themes in human nature, noncooperative self-interest and other-regarding sympathy, but these views are not contradictory if impersonal market exchange and personal exchange are dis...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 1 - 20 |
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Southern Economic Association
July 1998
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