Insufficiency of Self-love

Gavin Kennedy ()

Chapter 22 in Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy, 2005, pp 101-103 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract I shall begin by examining one of the most quoted passages from Wealth of Nations: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.1

Keywords: Human Nature; Stone Tool; Original Principle; Successful Society; Mixed Motive (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230511194_22

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