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Young, Jeffrey T. - In: OEconomia 2013 (2013) 01, pp. 147-164

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Samuel Fleischacker, On Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. xvii+329.

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Utilitarianism and the role of utility in Adam Smith

Witztum, Amos; Young, Jeffrey T. - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 20 (2013) 4, pp. 572-602

<title>Abstract</title> In this paper we confront attempts to bring Smith closer to utilitarianism. We show that Smith's conception of utility is not utilitarian. While the pursuit of 'pleasure' could lie behind human behaviour, it is not the pleasure referred to by utilitarianism. Instead, utility, in its...

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