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082 0 4 _a330.15/3
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRasmussen, Dennis C.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Problems and Promise of Commercial Society :
_bAdam Smith's Response to Rousseau /
_cDennis C. Rasmussen.
264 1 _aUniversity Park, PA :
_bPenn State University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2008
300 _a1 online resource (208 p.)
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520 _aAdam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries about commercial society that Rousseau did and was strongly influenced by his critique.In this first book-length comparative study of these leading eighteenth-century thinkers, Dennis Rasmussen highlights Smith's sympathy with Rousseau's concerns and analyzes in depth the ways in which Smith crafted his arguments to defend commercial society against these charges. These arguments, Rasmussen emphasizes, were pragmatic in nature, not ideological: it was Smith's view that, all things considered, commercial society offered more benefits than the alternatives.Just because of this pragmatic orientation, Smith's approach can be useful to us in assessing the pros and cons of commercial society today and thus contributes to a debate that is too much dominated by both dogmatic critics and doctrinaire champions of our modern commercial society.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Political.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780271035093?locatt=mode:legacy
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