How should we reconcile self-regarding and pro-social motivations? A renaissance of “Das Adam Smith Problem”
“Das Adam Smith Problem” is the name given by eighteenth-century German scholars to the question of how to reconcile the role of self-interest in the Wealth of Nations with Smith’s advocacy of sympathy in Theory of Moral Sentiments. As the discipline of economics developed, it focused on the interac...
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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