...Laurence S. Moss Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Some public-choice aspects of Hobbes’s political thought Laurence S. Moss Thomas Hobbes argued that without an all-powerful authority the unintended consequences of competitive...

... and make a deligent effort to press their case. Yet, this reviewer remains unconvinced that their asser- tions have any more validity than do any number of alternative hypotheses that are possible, given the complex matrix within which the political structure emerged. Hobbes and America...

... CCC 0018-2702/89/$1.50 Hobbes and the physiological origins of economic science Paul P. Christensen I. Introduction Thomas Hobbes is generally regarded as having made important contri- butions to the metaphysical, psychological, social, and political founda...

...Brian Smith Abstract This article argues that Hobbes was actively engaged in the debates about population size as a component of his broader approach to political economy. By the seventeenth century, beliefs about economic well-being routinely turned back onto the question of population size...

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... of the Spanish Succession remains to be explored for yet another history of his System. Larry Neal, University of Illinois 10.1215/00182702-8009649 The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith. By Paul Sagar. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. x; 248 pp. $45.00...

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...Tony Aspromourgos Correspondence may be addressed to the author, Dept. of Economics, University of Sydney, New South Wales, 2006 AUSTRALIA. © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 References Amati , F. , and T. Aspromourgos. 1985 . ‘Petty contra Hobbes: a previously untranslated...

... Smith's economic thought. HOPE 4 . 1 . Cannan , E. , ed. 1937 . Adam Smith. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations . New York: Modern Library. Helvetius , C. A. 1758 . De l'esprit . Paris: Chez Durand. Hobbes , T. 1651 . Leviathan . Printed...

.../00182702-8009649 The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith. By Paul Sagar. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. x; 248 pp. $45.00. Paul Sagar challenges the conventional view that modern states are creatures of Thomas Hobbes s sovereignty. Focusing only...

... is concerned with tracing the evolution of philosophical ideas on the normative role of self-interest in society from the time of Hobbes to that of Adam Smith. As the author tells us in the Introduction, “I am going to show how self- interest, which I will call the soul of modern economic man, gradually...

... by Mendel Shapiro. London: George Allen & Unwin. Hobbes, Thomas. [1651] 1985 . Leviathan . Edited by C. B. Macpherson. London:Penguin. Horsefield, J. Keith. 1960 . British Monetary Experiments, 1650-1710 . London: G. Bell &Sons. Hull, Charles Henry, ed. 1899 . The Economic Writings...

... for a Bank of Secure Current Credit to Be Founded upon Land . London. Chown, J. F. 1994 . A History of Money from A.D. 800 . London: Routledge. Christensen, P. P. 1989 . Hobbes and the Physiological Origins of Economic Science. HOPE 21.4 : 689 -709. Clapham, J. [1944] 1966 . The Bank...

... out the direction to be taken by future arguments about self-interest and social interest. I1 A major debate occurred in the last half of the seventeenth cen- tury concerning the location of the rules of morali'ty. Hobbes was a .major figure...

..., which was quite amo- ral in its behavior, though providing qualified guarantees for the life and property of its subjects. Petty’s analogies are generally more corporeal than mechanical. Petty and Hobbes, both practicing physicians, held an image of the state as an artificial body. Petty’s...

... be used to criticize modern economic practice? A good place to begin answering this question is by considering the tension that Michael Hobbs (1991) detects in Mirowski’s use of meta­ phor in More Heat than Light. Hobbs attempts to situate Mirowski’s usage in the context...

... aware of his indebtness to his mentor Hutcheson and his near-contemporary Hume, are in- compatible. I do not think they are. I would rather argue that Smith was an important figure in the history of political thought because he did mark the turning point from Hobbes and Locke...

... of the British legacy,the ethical and political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes is assigned a leading role,closely followed by those of John Locke and later George Berkeley,Bernard Mandeville,David Hume,andAdam Smith. The important economic writings,however,of Locke,Berkeley,and Hume are scarcely mentioned...

..., that of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Buchanan). Book Reviews 519 Today’s neoclassical paradigm is thought to be a synthesis of subjective value theories as advocated by Menger, Jevons, and Edgeworth; equilibrium theory from Walras to Arrow/Debreu...

...: Harvard University Press. Copleston, Frederick. 1959 . Modern Philosophy: The British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume. Vol. 5 of A History of Philosophy . London: Burns and Oates. Crisp, Roger, and Michael Slote, eds. 1997 . Virtue Ethics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Evensky...