- Introduction
- 1. Economic Dispositions
- The History of Sentiments
- Civilized and Commercial Society
- The Unfrightened Mind
- Two Kinds of Enlightenment
- The Devil Himself
- Heroic Dispositions
- A Sort of Inner Shuddering
- The Cold Light of Reason and the Warmth of Economic Life
- Seeing the State as in a Picture
- Indulgence and Indifference
- The Light of History
- The Enlightenment and the Present
- 2. Adam Smith and Conservative Economics
- This Famous Philosopher
- Scotland in the 1790s
- Economic and Political Freedom
- The Liberal Reward of Labor
- One-Sided Rationalistic Liberalism
- Smith’s Real Sentiments
- 3. Commerce and the State
- A Reciprocal Dependence
- Scarcities, Dearths, and Famines
- Poverty and General Equilibrium
- Turgot’s Policies against Famine
- Interpretations of Smith and Turgot
- The Lapse of Time
- 4. Apprenticeship and Insecurity
- A Strange Adventure
- It Is But Equity, Besides
- Corporations and Competition
- Education and Apprenticeship
- A State of Nonage
- The Apprenticeship: A Digression on the Slave Trade
- Uncertain Jurisprudence
- History and Institutions
- 5. The Bloody and Invisible Hand
- The Invisible Hand of Jupiter
- Tremble, Unfortunate King!
- Intentions and Interests
- Political Influence
- Clerical Systems
- Smith’s "Stoicism"
- Order and Design
- A Persuasive Device
- Explanation and Understanding
- Greatest Possible Values
- Evolved Orders
- Two Shortcomings of Liberal Thought
- 6. Economic and Political Choice
- Raton Was Quite Astonished...
- General Economic Interdependence
- Giving the Impression of Doing Nothing
- The Soul Discouraged
- Poverty, Taxes, and Unsalubrious Factories
- Formal Methods
- Social Choice and Economic Procedures
- Discussions and Constitutions
- Pelion and Ossa
- 7. Condorcet and the Conflict of Values
- Cold, Descriptive Cartesian Reason
- Diversity and Uniformity
- The Indissoluble Chain
- Civilized Conflict
- Inconsistent Universalism
- Domestic Virtues
- The Imaginary Enlightenment
- The Liberty of Thought and Discussion
- 8. A Fatherless World
- A Different Enlightenment
- Smith and Condorcet
- Uncertainty and Irresolution
- A System of Sentiments
- Civilized Political Discussion
- Economic Sentiments
- A World Unrestored
- Suitable Equality
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


Economic Sentiments
Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment
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Publication Date: 04/30/2002