Index

absolutism 2

Adam Smith Institute 182 admiration

desire for 60-1

of sentiments of another 65 American Revolution 183 analogy

and reality 16, 29 contextual nature of 32 criteria of adequacy 41-7 in science 34—47 mechanical 29, 46 relationship to language 29,46 role in perception 32 see also interpretive systems, language approval — and

disapproval 61, 67, 71N23 Aristotle 16, 44, 86 arithmomorphic concepts 13-16 Arkwright 166

Ashton, T.S.

and Smith’s model 83, 179 formation of human nature 53-6, 58-9, 61 implications of 27, 54 language of 27 morality 54, 63 self-interest 68 similarity in men 53

Bacon, F. 56 Baird, G. 49N10 Beckett, S. 16-17 Bennett, J. 23N21 Bentham, J. 165 Bharadwaj, K.R. 176 Bitterman 27 Black, J. 166

Blanchard, B. 69 Blanchfιeld, W.D. 90N10 Blaug, M. 5N4, 127-8 Bloor, D. 22N10 Bodin, J. 70N14

Bonar,J. 71N19 Boulton, M. 166 Bowley, M. 167 Brindley 166

Bury,J.B. 70N13

Campbell, N.R. 22N6 Campbell, R.H. 74, 90 Campbell, T.D. 6N9, 46, 63-4,

71N21, 138-9

Campbell, W.F. 123N1

C antilion 4 capital

as a wages fund 80, 165 capital—labour ratio 81,160-1 dynamics of accumulation 81, 146-7, 149-50, 153, 156-8, 161-8, 182

fixed and circulating 159-61 Carnap, R. 24N26 causality 18, 35, 48N8 Cicero 56, 137

Coats, A.W. 22N14, 125N20 Coleman, D.C. 177N24 Collingwood 20

Condorcet, (Marquis de) 57 ∞ntract theory of

society 54, 70N7 Copernicus 35 corruption 93, 121-3 Cropsey 39

Descartes 45, 51 dialectics

and sympathy 83-4, 141 concepts 14—15, 17—18 definition 13

in social science 13, 18 in the division of

labour 59, 75, 82-5 materialism 1,19-20,78,84—5 qualitative change 42 tastes endogenous 86-7 see also division of labour, materialism

Dickinson, H.W. 177N25 division of labour 3, 69, 72 accounts for diversity

in men 94—5

and exchange value 95, 160 and legislation

101-2, 115-16, 123, 150-3,

157, 180

and social structures

76-80, 83, 89, 147-8 as a dialectical

concept 75-8, 83, 89, 94—7,

142-3, 157, 176N12 as special and general

theory 79-82, 95, 109-110,

146, 155

cause of economic

growth 72-9, 154, 158 creates imperfections 92-3,

102, 128

determines social development

43, 73, 142-3, 148 dynamic element 69, 72-9,

92, 148, 179-80 focuses the imagination 80 forms the understanding 94—8 four stages theory

74, 146-54, 174 fragments society 98-103 impact of militia 102-3 impoverishes the individual

95-8

improves welfare 103-7, 170 limited by the market

82, 147, 156 model resolves contradictions

109-15, 123 natural price of labour

142, 171-3

not mechanistic 84

pin factory example

73, 123N5 premises 60-2 role of education 96, 112-14 role of government 112-14,

116-18, 150, 153-4 technological innovation

79-81, 164-8 time scale 82

see also dialectics, labour

theory of value, materialism Dobb, M.

Edinburgh Poker Club 103 empiricism 15-19, 27, 43, 52 Encyclopedists 56, 123N5 Enlightenment 55-8, 69, 179

falsification 6-7

Ferguson, A. 121,

123-4, N6N7N11 Feyerabend, P. 24N27 Fichte 19

Forbes, D. 89N4 four stages theory described 74—9 explicit in the lectures 74 fundamental principle

50N24, 74

Fromm, E. 71N19

Gamble, A. 71N17

Gay, P. 144

Gee, J.M.A. 123N13 generality 31 geneticism 51, 55-6, 58 Georgescu-Roegen, N. 13-15,18 Gibbon 144

Goldman, L. 6N8 Gordon, D.F. 5N5, 22N14

Groenwegen, D.D. 70N9

Haakonsen, K. 48N14, 66, 69N6, 84-5, 115-16, 119, 126N27, 138

Habermas, J. 6N9, 24N29 Hacking, I. 23N17

Hargreaves 166

Harrington 121

Harrod, R. 82

Hegel 17, 19-20, 24N28, 137 Heilbroner, R.L. 125N17 Helvetius 20

Hesse, M.B. 22N6 Hilderbrand 49N21 Hirshman, A.O. 71N19 historicism 56 Hobbes 20, 71N24 Hollander, S. 86, 160, 162,

165, 177N30 Howson, C. 22N10 Hume, D. 26,48N3,52,144N10

impressions 26-7, 52

Smith on 125N16, 145N16 Hutcheson, F. 89N1 Huxley 13

imagination 34, 66 impartial spectator

and legislation 115-16 and natural justice 136-8 coherence of 45, 64 judgement of 45, 62-7, 92 role in social evolution 59-62, 67-9

see also sympathy induction 63-9, 83 interpretive systems 32

and propriety 65-6 criteria for 41-7, 67 role of analogy 34—47 see also analogy invisible hand 59, 86, 127-37, 144N2N9

Jeflerson, T. 122 Jenkins, R. 177N25 judgement

contextual 32, 64—6 in general rules 63-9 in language 30-3

Kant, I. 12, 26, 28, 48N5, 59 Kaplan, A. 23N17 Katouzion, H. 22N14, 144N9 Kenny, A. 23-4N24 Kepler 45

Knight, F.H. 5N4 Kobner, R. 125N20, 163 Korsh, K. 24N29 Kries 49N21

Krimerman, I. 23N22 Kuhn, T. 8-12

labour theory of value

and the division of labour

20, 72, 160

as a fundamental principle

20, 72

embodies technological change

79-81, 160-1, 164-8 measure of value 53, 85-8 Scottish Historical School 57 subjective value 86-7 use and exchange value 86-9 see also division of labour Laird, J.

21, 40-2, 178

Lamb, R. 108-11 125N19 language

and reality 16, 26, 29, 46, 68 contextual 32-3 development of 26-30, 80 role of the mind 30-3

Latsis, SJ. 22N9 Leibniz 51

Leijonhufvud, A. 22N9 Lindgren, J.R. 33, 46 Locke, J. 27, 48N3N6, 52 logical positivism 16-17 Lovejoy, A.O. 23N18 Lucacs, G. 24N29

Macfarlane, A. 122 Macfιe, A.L. 68-9, 70NI0,

71N17, 135-7 Mach, E. 11 Machiavelli 121 Machlup, F. 6N8 Mandeville 37 Mandlebaum, M. 51-2 Mantoux, P. 177N23 Marcus Aurelius 56, 137 Marxist interpretations 1, 175 Marx, K. 1

and Hegel 20

critique of Smith 83, 88, 114, 123-4N6, 125N21, 164 on alienation 93, 109 materialism 20

and Scottish Historical School 56-8

in Smith’s work 78, 84, 119—

21, 157, 181

see also dialectics Medio, A. 17N17

Meek, R.L. 4, 12, 24N30, 50N24, 75, 90, 123N1

Meinecke, F. 7ON11 merit - and demerit 61-2 Mesaros, I. 5N1 metaphysics 10-11, 25-6,

127, 135 metascience 10-12, 21, 47, 54,

127, 141 Michelson—Moreley experiment 9 Mill, J.S. 7ON11 Mirabeau 4 Mitchell, W.C. 165-6 Mizuta, H. 90N14 monopoly

aspect of estrangement 93, 99-100, 117-19 defended 168

interferes with the division of labour 78, 118-19, 158-9, 162

Montesquieu 4, 56-8, 125N16 morality 3, 54, 63, 76-8, 93 Morrison, J.C. 7ON12 Myers, M. 90N8

Napoleani, C. 135-6N7 Napoleanic Wars 182 Newton, I. 10, 37, 41, 44, 46 48N6, 56

Nicholas of Cusa 56

O’Driscoll, G.P.J. 90N13 Olsen, R. 48N9 O’Neill, P. 23N22 Osner, J. 90N10

Papperholm, F. 123N1 paradigm 8, 12 Physiocrats 87 pietism 57, 7O-1N14 Plato 16, 40

Pocock, J.G.A. 71N15, 121-2, 126N32

Popper, K. 8-12, 21N21 Pownall, (Governor) 162, 176N12

Price, H.H. 23N21 Price, L.L. 89N4

prices

factor 146-8, 161-75 passim natural 142, 175N2N3 profit 146, 158, 161-3, 166-7, 171, 176N17 progress 57-8, 68, 83 propriety 61, 64—5 Ptolemy 9, 35

Qualitative change

aesthetic criteria 42

and general rules 67-8

and the division of labour 75-9, 128, 154

and verification 16

∞ncepts of 14—19, 21 dis∞ntinuity 42, 47, 68 from general to special theory 78-80, 154, 156-7

improvement as simplification 80, 95, 166 in society 42-3, 47, 67-8, 116, 180

slow rate 82-3 qualitative residuals 2, 15 Quesnay 4 Quine, W.

Radnitzky, G. 24N27 Rae, J. 124N9 Raphael, D.A. 70N10, 136-7 rationality — and reason 141 and associationism 51—4 and Scottish Historical School

53-4, 57-9

cunning of reason 137 ethical rationalism 63, 66, 69, 141

in science 8-12

practical reasoning 67, 179 and impartiality 115-16 builds social structures 89, 128, 141-3

contrast with associationism 83

imperfections 93, 99

role in forming general rules 63-9, 78, 83

Reformation 57 relativism 2

research programmes 7-12,

17-21

Ricardo, D. 20, 82-3, 173, 182 Robinson, J. 176

Roche, M. 6N7

Rosenberg, N. 111-12, 156-7 Rousseau 109

Ryle, G. 24N26

scholasticism 25

Schumpeter, J.A. 5N4,11,17,39,

73-4, 83, 89N2, 162, 168, 177N29

Science - see analogy,

interpretive systems Scottish Historical School 4

economics fundamental

56-8, 72

Enlightenment 69 influences on 55-8 treatment of corruption'122—3 Shaftesbury 121

Skarzynski 49N21

Skinner, A.S. 6N11,48N23, 74-5, 90N9, 110

Skinner, Q. 5N6 Smith, A.

anticipations of his work 4, 175N6

homogeneity of his work 4—5, 37-40, 43

interpretations of his work

15, 83, 86, 107-12, 127-8 scientific nature of his work

4,15, 17

scope of his work 3-4 sophisticated methodological

falsificationism 9-12, 41-2 Spengler, J J. 143, 165 Spinoza 51 Sraffa, P. 91N17 Stark, W. 5N3, 144-5N13 Stigler, GJ. 22N14 Stoicism 56, 70N10, 105, 136-7 Strauss, L. 6N8 subsistence 72, 146-7

socially defined 81,104,171—2 surprise - and wonder 31-2, 34,

41, 64-5, 182-3 sympathy 128 and general rules 62-9, 83-4 and social estrangement 93, 99-103, 124N12, 162, 180 imperfections 93-8 process crucial 67-9, 92 role in social evolution 43, 59, 61-8, 73, 79-80, 83 social and unsocial passions 71N2O

Tarlton, C.D. 5N6 tastes 146-8, 151, 157, 168-9 teleology 68,105,127,138,140-2 Todd, W.B. 74, 90N9 transformation problem 20, 88 trucking urge 60-2

Turgot 4, 56, 58, 70N9

uniformity 31 unintended consequences 68, 127

and the invisible hand 128-35 and purposive action 128-9, 143

crucial to Smith’s model 157 material gains illusory 130-5 role of vanity 131—4 self-interest 128-30 subjective-objective dichotomy 132, 155-6, 169, 171-2

utility illusion 132, 140, 156, 169-70

see also invisible hand, vanity universities

transmit outmoded knowledge 112, 125-6N25, 166

Urbach, P.

and aesthetics 139—40 as central principle 138—40 theory of value 86

vanity

cause of long leases 77, 156 conspicuous consumption 130-1, 169-70 pride-magnanimity 60-1 role in social evolution 59-61, 67, 133

self-love 60

see also unintended consequences

verification 15-19, 29, 43, 182-3 Vickers, D. 59

Vico 56, 7ON12

Viner, J. 39, 105

Voltaire 56

Von Leyden, W. 2, 23N21

Wager, W.W. 7ON13

Walton, P. 7IN 17

Watkins, J.N.N. 23N22 Watt, J. 166

Weber, M. 6N8

West, E.G. 39, 107-11

Winch, D. 40, 48N20, 90N6.

124N10N15, 175N1 Winch, P. 6N7 Wittgenstein, L. 16, 23N23 Woolf, H. 22N17