Unpacking “Adam Smith: Critical theorist?”

摘要: This paper responds to Keith Tribe's provocative Journal of Economic Literature article, “Adam Smith: Critical Theorist?” There Tribe argued that most people the time grossly misread Smith, due, among other things, their quite inadequate appreciation Smith's linguistic, social, moral, and theological context. Against Tribe, argues Smith can profitably be read as both an eighteenth-century moralist a twenty-first century critic. source inspiration, wisdom profundity for contemporary economists. Moreover, successfully employed by modern economists change, deepen, broaden economic theory.