Adam Smith

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses Adam Smith mainly through Hegel and Marx. He does not read any of his works closely. In a session devoted to Marx, he places him among the English classical economists, before Ricardo1. He also cites him as a representative of classical bourgeois political economy when he asks how sciences of history can be real2. He stresses that Hegel read him, and early on, from the Frankfurt period3, along with other classical economists. He places the Hegelian "cunning" in Smith's wake4. He also notes that Hegel follows him when pointing out the drawbacks of the division of labour5. Finally, on the question of a balance in nature, he counts him among the economists who appeal to a natural order. For him, Smith thus appears as a source of Hegel's thinking on society and history, and as a figure of classical political economy.

1. 1Marx Plage 2/21 Feb 2016 · 20:13
2. 29 #14 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?5 Feb 2021 · 51:19
3. 3#9 TABLEAUX D'UNE EXPOSITION : L'art, vu d'ici ou d'en face?10 Feb 2022 · 27:31
4. 4Hommage à Jacques D'Hondt (2)2 Aug 2016 · 4:25
5. 5Hommage à Jacques D'Hondt (3)2 Aug 2016 · 22:14

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