2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Adam Smith's Ethics and Economics: the theory of sympathy and division of labor
| Project/Area Number |
22530201
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic doctrine/Economic thought
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| Research Institution | Kyushu Sangyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKA Tetsuo 九州産業大学, 大学院・経済・ビジネス研究科, 教授 (90106790)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | アダム・スミス / 共感 / 利己心 / 倫理 / 道徳 / 自由競争 / 労働価値論 / 進化論 |
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| Research Abstract |
At least two points are clarified by my research on close textual evidences: firstly, Adam Smith’s idea of free competition is markedly different from the modern Neo-Liberalism’s one, since Smith’s conception of human nature composing from instinctive self-love and benevolence necessarily requires every member of the society to seek and attain some propriety of conducts, not to seek the licentious freedom: secondly, Smith’s theory of natural price is fundamentally built on the sympathetic evaluation of other’s labor, as well as the nutritional value of food especially of bread and corn.
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Research Products
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