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Article: Moral Sentiments
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- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Moral Sentiments
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The field of economics developed out of political economy, which in the early twenty-first century would be thought of as an interdisciplinary combination of economics, political science, sociology, history, and moral philosophy. Prior to that evolution, political economy was part of the curriculum of
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expediency,
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a subfield of moral philosophy. Adam Smith, for example, was a professor of moral philosophy, and not until Thomas Malthus is political economy itself deemed worthy of a sole professorship. Smith, often considered the
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father of economics,
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was the author not only of
The Wealth of Nations
(1776) but also of
The Theory ...
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