Adam Smith’s Economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: The Language of Commerce

Benoît Walraevens

Chapter 6 in Adam Smith’s System, 2022, pp 141-166 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Under the light of Adam Smith’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (LRBL), the aim of this paper will be to reinterpret some Smithian economic and moral issues. More precisely, it will try to highlight the relationship between discursive practice and economic reality in apparent simplicity, exchange. According to Smith, the essence and foundation of exchange and commerce lies in language. The departure point of this study will be to examine the dichotomy that he establishes between two main types of discourse: the rhetorical discourserhetorical discourse and the didactic discoursedidactic discourse.

Date: 2022
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