Mind, Meaning, and Economics
ABSTRACT
Economics and the humanities are often perceived to be fundamentally disconnected. This colloquium explored how we might better integrate economics and the humanities.
READING LIST
From Liberty Fund
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by
By Adam Smith
Edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith’s first and in his own mind most important work, outlines his view of proper conduct and the institutions and sentiments that make men virtuous. Here he develops his doctrine of the impartial spectator, whose hypothetical disinterested judgment we must use to distinguish right from…
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (vol. 1)
by
By Adam Smith
Edited by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner
William B. Todd, Textual Editor
First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith’s Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing and the division of labor to monetary, tax, trade, and other government policies that…
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (vol. 2)
by
By Adam Smith
Edited by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner
William B. Todd, Textual Editor
First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith’s Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing and the division of labor to monetary, tax, trade, and other government policies that…
Additional Readings
Deacon, Terrence W. Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.
Ferguson, Adam. Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense. Edited by G. A. Johnston. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1915.
Goethe, Wolfgang. Goethe’s Faust. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Anchor, 1962.
Gul, Faruk and Wolfgang Pesendorfer, “The Case for Mindless Economics” In The Foundations of Positive and Normative Economics: A Handbook, edited by Andrew Caplin and Andrew Shotter, 3-39. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Hayek, F. A. “Rules, Perception and Intelligibility.” Proceedings of the British Academy XLVIII (1962): 321-344.
Hayek, Friedrich A. Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Kaufmann, Walter. Goethe, Kant, and Hegel: Discovering the Mind. Volume one. Piscataway: Transaction Publishers, 1991.
Knight, Frank H. The Ethics of Competition. Piscataway: Transaction Publishers, 1997, 2011.