Deceiving someone in our everyday lives is a moral failing, one that we are adept at detecting and quick to judge in the words and actions of others. In our professional lives as economic scientists we are also quick to judge experimental procedures as deceptive, but we have problems...

Following Smith's line of argument, we discuss the semantics of four economic principles in Chapter III of the 'Wealth of Nations' that compose Adam Smith's famous proposition “that division of labour is limited by the extent of the market.” We apply the Natural Semantic Metalanguage...

This paper examines the conceptual semantics of two keywords belonging to the English vocabulary of economics discourse, money and value (intended as exchangeable value of goods), as originally theorized by Adam Smith in Chapter IV of the Wealth of Nations. It is argued that a semantic...

The moral philosopher and political economist Adam Smith (1723-1790) and the author Mary Shelley (1798-1851) are studied in different spheres of the academy, for rather different purposes, with no supposed reason for dialogue. We claim in a close concurrent reading, however, that Smith and...