David Hume and Adam Smith - A Japanese Perspective

List of contents

Part I: Hume’s Economic Thought in Historical Contexts 1. Hume’s Philosophical Economics 2. Hume’s Political Economy as a System of Manners 3. Hume’s "Early Memoranda" and the Making of His Political Economy 4. Hume’s Economic Theory 5. The Historical Contexts of Hume’s Economic Thought 6. Anonymous Writings of David Hume Part II: Hume and Smith in Japan and the West 7. Adam Smith’s Dialogue with Rousseau and Hume, Yoshihiko Uchida and the Birth of the Wealth of Nations 8. Adam Smith’s "Sympathy" in Modern Japanese Perspectives 9. Adam Smith and Yukichi Fukuzawa: Between Sympathy and Independence/ Self-Respect 10. A Personal Recollection: Hume and Smith in Japan and the West

About the author

Tatsuya Sakamoto, Professor of Economics, Keio University, Japan

Summary

With chapters exploring aspects of Hume’s economic and social thought, the development of moral theory in the Scottish Enlightenment and the impact of Smith’s ideas on Japanese intellectuals, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the history of economic thought, Hume studies, and intellectual history more broadly.

Product details

• Authors: Tatsuya Sakamoto, Tatsuya (Keio University Sakamoto, Sakamoto Tatsuya
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780367683023
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68302-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Philosophy, Economic history, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy