TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking Burke and Smith
T2 - political economy and foundations of industry
AU - Sato, Sora
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKEN) (16K20978). The earlier versions of the article were presented in a conference of the History of Economics Society (43rd Annual Meetings, June 2016, Duke University) and Political Economy Tokyo Seminar (October 2017, University of Tokyo). I appreciate the comments on them by participants in the conferences. I am also very grateful to Richard Bourke, Thomas Ahnert, Mark Roberts and anonymous referees of the journal for their helpful comments on the early drafts of this article.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The traditional interpretation of Burke’s political economy emphasised his defense of free trade, and his intellectual relationship with Smith has also been the centre of scholarly attention. This article attempts a systematic comparison between Burke and Smith and shows in detail how Burke’s concern with political stability, a great source of his economic thinking, helped distinguish his political economy from that of Smith’s. Burke was especially concerned with the link between the conservation of manners and social development. The differences between Burke and Smith suggest their economic thought could be read in distinct contexts of Enlightenment thought.
AB - The traditional interpretation of Burke’s political economy emphasised his defense of free trade, and his intellectual relationship with Smith has also been the centre of scholarly attention. This article attempts a systematic comparison between Burke and Smith and shows in detail how Burke’s concern with political stability, a great source of his economic thinking, helped distinguish his political economy from that of Smith’s. Burke was especially concerned with the link between the conservation of manners and social development. The differences between Burke and Smith suggest their economic thought could be read in distinct contexts of Enlightenment thought.
KW - betterment
KW - Enlightenment
KW - jealousy of trade
KW - manners
KW - Political stability
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U2 - 10.1080/09672567.2021.1914699
DO - 10.1080/09672567.2021.1914699
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105916161
SN - 0967-2567
VL - 29
SP - 82
EP - 103
JO - European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
JF - European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
IS - 1
ER -