Walraevens, Benoît - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2011) 60, pp. 11-44
This article aims to show the originality and the richness of Smith’s analysis of the dehumanizing effects of the division of labour. First, I find out the origin of his analysis in the debates of civic humanism on the corruption of people’s character in commercial societies. Then I show...