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Marx’s equalised rate of exploitation
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Jonathan F Cogliano
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 133–169, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beac064
Published: 03 March 2023
... are not widely recognised in the existing literature. This article shows that Marx assumed a tendentially equalised rate of exploitation to be the outcome of labour mobility and that he viewed this as a general tendency of capitalist economies. Marx draws extensively on Adam Smith to support his views on labour...
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Adam Smith’s invisible hand in robotic surgery
Jahnavi Kakuturu and Alper Toker
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Volume 62, Issue 3, September 2022, ezac258, https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezac258
Published: 06 May 2022
.../chorus/standard_publication_model ) Robotic surgery Economics Adam Smith Many economists believe in Adam Smith’s concepts of the invisible hand and price competition. Temporary monopolies created by technological research and investments generally produce incentives. The key players in the market...
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Adam Smith’s Digression on Silver: the centrepiece of the Wealth of Nations
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Maria Pia Paganelli
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 46, Issue 3, May 2022, Pages 531–544, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beac009
Published: 25 April 2022
.../funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract I suggest that Adam Smith’s ‘Digression on Silver’ should be read as his most powerful argument against mercantilism in the Wealth of Nations. For mercantilists money is wealth, according to Smith, and an increase in the quantity of silver...
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To “Fill Up, Completely, the Whole Capacity of the Mind”: Listening with Attention in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland
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Carmel Raz
Music Theory Spectrum, Volume 44, Issue 1, Spring 2022, Pages 141–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtab012
Published: 06 October 2021
... theories about musical meaning: as Wilhelm Seidel emphasizes, “Adam Smith’s Essay is wholly exceptional; there is nothing from the period, and for a long time afterwards, to which it can be compared.” 5 The enjoyment afforded by instrumental music, Smith holds, is similar...
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Adam Smith’s view of economic inequality
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Benoît Walraevens
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 209–224, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beaa024
Published: 20 July 2020
.... All rights reserved. 2020 This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Inequality Adam Smith Fairness...
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Do not take peace for granted: Adam Smith’s warning on the relation between commerce and war
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Maria Pia Paganelli and Reinhard Schumacher
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 3, May 2019, Pages 785–797, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bey040
Published: 12 October 2018
... Smith Doux commerce Perceived cost versus actual cost of war Special interests Contrary to what is commonly believed, one of the most famous promoters of the benefits of trade, Adam Smith, worries that commerce and the wealth it creates may not decrease, but actually increase international...
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Adam Smith’s foundational idea of sympathetic persuasion
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Leonidas Montes
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bex090
Published: 28 February 2018
... and foundational concept for his ideal of a civilized and free society. Finally, this interpretation of the importance of Smith’s persuasion allows us to overcome the famous Das Adam Smith Problem. Adam Smith Persuasion Sympathy Language and speech were of high importance to Adam Smith. He not only...
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Adam Smith, natural movement and physics
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Spencer J Pack and Eric Schliesser
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 2, March 2018, Pages 505–521, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bex008
Published: 25 July 2017
...Spencer J Pack; Eric Schliesser © The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. 2017 Abstract This paper argues that often when Adam Smith used the word ‘natural’, it was not in contradistinction to supernatural...
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The concept of need in Adam Smith
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Toru Yamamori
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 41, Issue 2, 1 March 2017, Pages 327–347, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bew049
Published: 18 October 2016
... close analysis in this paper, I wish to trace the concept’s prominence in Adam Smith’s thought and to fine-tune its definitional aspects. The thrust of Smith’s argument is to delineate the mechanism via which the needs of the poorest in society are satisfied. Grounded in an understanding of need...
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Adam Smith and William James on the psychological basis of progress
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Simon Glaze
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 41, Issue 2, 1 March 2017, Pages 349–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bew043
Published: 11 August 2016
... by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. 2016 Abstract This paper identifies extensive connections between Adam Smith’s and William James’s accounts of the psychological basis of intellectual, material and moral progress. These connections...
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‘With Me’: The Sympathetic Collaboration of Mary Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Heather Bozant Witcher
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 52, Issue 2, April 2016, Pages 144–159, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqw004
Published: 09 April 2016
... the manuscripts. The private circulation of feeling and sympathy within individual entries mimics the physical circulation of texts and ideas between the couple. Mary Godwin Percy Bysshe Shelley Adam Smith collaboration sympathy life-writing community manuscript Mary did not know our danger. She...
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Adam Smith on markets, competition and violations of natural liberty
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Heinz D. Kurz
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 40, Issue 2, March 2016, Pages 615–638, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bev011
Published: 12 March 2015
... to the division of labour. ( WN I.ii.3) Abstract According to Adam Smith, markets and trade are, in principle, good things—provided there is competition and a regulatory framework that prevents ruthless selfishness, greed and rapacity from leading to socially harmful outcomes. But competition and market...
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Natural price and the long run: Alfred Marshall’s misreading of Adam Smith
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David Andrews
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 265–279, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beu028
Published: 22 August 2014
... sufficient to sustain the continuing production and supply of the commodity. As J. S. Mill wrote: ‘Adam Smith . . . calls . . . natural price . . . the price which will enable it to be permanently produced and brought to market’ ([1848] 1909, pp 445–6). Understood in this way as what may be called...
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Demand and structural change in Adam Smith’s view of economic progress
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Kwangsu Kim
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 245–264, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beu027
Published: 22 July 2014
... for agricultural goods. Adam Smith Economic Development Natural and Historical Progress Endogenous Demand and Structural Change B12 N00 O10 According to the standard view of Smith’s theory of economic growth, supply-side factors are central to the process of economic change. Capital accumulation...
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Political economy and the social disciplines: the modern life of Das Adam Smith Problem
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William Dixon and David Wilson
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 38, Issue 3, May 2014, Pages 623–641, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bes074
Published: 06 February 2013
... of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. 2013 Abstract The standard vision of the self in economics has been backdated onto a misrepresented Adam Smith but has more in common with the egoistic vision of Thomas Hobbes. This self, given its narrowness, has provoked criticism concerning its...
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Don’t treat too ill my Piero! Interpreting Sraffa's papers
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Heinz D. Kurz
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 36, Issue 6, November 2012, Pages 1535–1569, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bes065
Published: 14 December 2012
...Heinz D. Kurz Adam Smith Classical political economy David Ricardo Income distribution Karl Marx Objectivism Piero Sraffa Value A12 B12 B16 B24 B31 D24 D33 D51 Address for correspondence: Department of Economics, University of Graz, RESOWI-Zentrum 4F, 8010 Graz, Austria...
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Adam Smith’s ‘History of Astronomy’ and view of science
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Kwangsu Kim
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 36, Issue 4, July 2012, Pages 799–820, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bes001
Published: 29 February 2012
..., was not itself the object of any of our senses, but could be perceived only by the understanding. It was by the sensible qualities, however, that we judged of the specific Essence of each object’ ( Smith, 1980 , pp. 128–9). Adam Smith ‘History of Astronomy’ Scientific explanation Inference to the best...
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The evolution of mutualism
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E. G. Leigh Jr
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 23, Issue 12, 1 December 2010, Pages 2507–2528, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02114.x
Published: 01 December 2010
... cheating. Both symbioses and brief‐exchange mutualisms have transformed whole ecosystems. These mutualisms may be steps towards ecosystems which, like Adam Smith’s ideal economy, serve their members’ common good. Adam Smith brief‐exchange mutualisms cheating mutualistic ecosystems partner choice...
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Limited liability and the wealth of ‘uncivilised nations’: Adam Smith and the limits to the European Enlightenment
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Hugh Goodacre
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 34, Issue 5, September 2010, Pages 857–867, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beq007
Published: 15 March 2010
...Hugh Goodacre Adam Smith was undoubtedly an exemplary representative of the Enlightenment movement in eighteenth century European philosophy, a champion of its professed principle of defending the weak against the powerful, and a pioneer in the exploration of a wide range of issues arising...
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A Sraffian critique of the classical notion of centre of gravitation
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Michel-Stéphane Dupertuis and Ajit Sinha
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 33, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 1065–1087, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/ben050
Published: 21 January 2009
... diminishing returns into play in the agricultural sector; and in the case of Adam Smith, the expansion of the size of the market should lead to increasing returns of one kind or the other. 8 In Sraffa's system, the theoretical distinction between the problematic of allocation of labour and growth becomes...
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