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Vanity and the love of system in Theory of Moral Sentiments
Authors:Daniel Diatkine
Institution:1. daniel.diatkine@univ-evry.fr
Abstract:Abstract

Some recent writing on Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments has emphasised the importance of vanity as one of the most important human motivations. This reading leads to a new version of Das Adam Smith Problem, but this is unwarranted. Such a reading tends to conceal the significance that Smith gave to the love of system, which motivates the actions of the philosopher, the man of state, and above all the entrepreneur. This paper shows, by contrast, that by using this conception we can relate Theory of Moral Sentiments to Wealth of Nations, and reject the idea that these works are based upon contradictory assumptions.
Keywords:Adam Smith  moral sentiments  capital accumulation
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