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Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science (Ideas in Context)
SelfInterest before Adam Smith A Genealogy of Economic Science - Ideas in Context
Author: Pierre Force
Pierre Force studies the history of the concept of self-interest to understand its meaning by the time that Adam Smith used it as an axiom in The Wealth of Nations. He demonstrates that Smith, unlike many of his predecessors and contemporaries, never endorsed the idea that self-interest is the motivation behind all human action, although the "s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521036191
ISBN-10: 0521036194
Publication Date: 4/23/2007
Pages: 300
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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