2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Historical Contexts and Characteristics of the Economic Thought in the Scottish Enlightenment : Adam Smith and Thomas Hepburn
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20730142
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Economic doctrine/Economic thought
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| Research Institution | Tokushima Bunri University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | 経済学 / 経済思想 / 市場経済 / 経済史 / 思想史 / 西洋史 / 哲学 |
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| Research Abstract |
A Letter(1760) by Thomas Hepburn, a Presbyterian minister, and The Theory of Moral Sentiments(1759) and The Wealth of Nations(1776) by Adam Smith, often regarded as the founder of economics, are put in the historical contexts of the Scottish Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Britain. Both can be understood as Enlightenment practices of envisaging and implementing agricultural improvement and, in Smith's case, of refining aesthetic judgment or taste.
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