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Adam Smith’s version of Virtue Ethics can be traced directly back to Plato (Socrates) and Aristotle. Smith basically skipped Aquinas and Augustine because they were also Catholic theologians, as well as philosophers. Referencing them would not have been looked upon kindly by the Scottish...
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Augustine’s argument about the failure of wealth to insure one’s happiness is very similar to Adam Smith’s position except that Augustine compares a lower income or middle income class citizen with a rich citizen while Smith compares a lower income class citizen,or poor citizen, with a...
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acknowledge that Keynes had made a “radical reconstruction” of the theory of the rate of interest. Special significance can be … given to Keynes's three point post script in which Keynes demonstrated that the classical theory of the rate of interest had … a radical reconstruction of the theory of the rate of interest in his letter of August 30, 1935.The result was that …
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cases of the more generalized Smith – Keynes axiom set. Keynes did exactly what he said he would do in the General Theory on … page 3. He generalized classical and Neoclassical theory by providing a more general axiomatic structure .Modern economists … are still working with the special theory of Bentham …
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