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History of economic thought

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History of economic thought

οἴκος

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οἴκος (oikos)

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History of economic thought

οἴκος (oikos) = house

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οἴκος (oikos) = household

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οἴκος (oikos) = householdΟἰκονομία

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οἴκος (oikos) = householdΟἰκονομία (oikonomia)

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History of economic thought

οἴκος (oikos) = householdΟἰκονομία (oikonomia) =

household management

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Adam Smith (1723 – 1790)

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Adam Smith (1723 – 1790)

Professor of Logic, moral philosophy

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Adam Smith (1723 – 1790)

Professor of Logic, moral philosophyTheory of Moral Sentiments (1859)

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Professor of Logic, moral philosophyTheory of Moral Sentiments (1859)Sympathy

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Professor of Logic, moral philosophyTheory of Moral Sentiments (1859)SympathySelf-interest

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Professor of Logic, moral philosophyTheory of Moral Sentiments (1859)SympathySelf-interestMarket (competition)

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Smith, “invisible hand”By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was not part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.

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Smith, “invisible hand”By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was not part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.

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Smith, “invisible hand”By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was not part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.

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Professor of Logic, moral philosophyTheory of Moral Sentiments (1859)SympathySelf-interestMarket (competition)Division of labor

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Division of labor

Increase in productive powers (how many pins can a worker produce)

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Division of labor

Increase in productive powers (how many pins can a worker produce)

Pin-making divided into 18 distinct operations

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Division of labor

Increase of dexterity

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Division of labor

Increase of dexterityTime saving

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Division of labor

Increase of dexterityTime savingInvention of machines

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therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make a-mong them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty eight thousand pins might be considered asmaking four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar busi- ness, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is certainly, not the two hund-red and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth part of what they are at present capable of performing, in conse-quence of a proper division and combination of their different op-erations.

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therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make a-mong them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty eight thousand pins might be considered asmaking four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar busi- ness, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is certainly, not the two hund-red and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth part of what they are at present capable of performing, in conse-quence of a proper division and combination of their different op-erations.

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Adam Smith (1723 – 1790)

System of perfect liberty

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System of perfect liberty, hampered by

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System of perfect liberty, hampered byMonopolies

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System of perfect liberty, hampered byMonopoliesGuilds

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System of perfect liberty, hampered byMonopoliesGuildsImport dues and taxes

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Role of the government

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Role of the governmentDefense

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Role of the governmentDefenseJustice

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Role of the governmentDefenseJusticeInfrastructure

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Role of the governmentDefenseJusticeInfrastructureEducation

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World market

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World marketNorth American colonies

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World marketNorth American coloniesSlavery