Would Smith Agree with the Twin Pillars?

Eli P Cox

Chapter 9 in Seeking Adam Smith:Finding The Shadow Curriculum of Business, 2017, pp 152-172 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: George Stigler wrote in his memoirs that Jacob Viner, a Chicago economics professor of an earlier generation, told him “that the average modern reference to classical economics is so vulgarly ignorant as not to deserve notice, let alone refutation”. The preceding chapters should make clear modern errors concerning Adam Smith have been harmful and deserve both notice and refutation…

Keywords: Financial Crises; United States; Corporations; Moral and Ethical Aspects; Business Education; Business Ethics; Economics-Moral and Ethical Aspects; Adam Smith (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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