Has everything on Adam Smith been written? A model and a counterargument

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I respond to Nuno Palma’s suggestion, made in 2008, that we are approaching the day in which nothing new can be said about Adam Smith. I think that is unlikely. The paper presents a model to support the suggestion. To illustrate my counterargument, I focus on the problem of Adam Smith’s apparently contradictory claims about the effects of the division of labour on character.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
University of Manchester (PhD)

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The Cambridge companion to Adam Smith.Knud Haakonssen (ed.) - 1996 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

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