impartial spectator

The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy;    SIMON BLACKBURN;   128 words ...impartial spectator Central concept in the ethical system of Adam Smith . The impartial spectator is an imagined ‘man within the breast’ whose approbation or disapproval makes up our awareness of the nature of our...

The impartial spectator and the flat tax

The Boston Globe;  February 4, 1996 ;   David Warsh, Globe Staff;   787 words ......way through the new biography of Adam Smith, the first full-scale life of Smith...next best thing to it) might be Adam Smith's first book. "The Moral Sentiments...pleasure of seeing it." So much for Adam Smith as the prophet of unfettered self-intere...Sentiments" is the notion of ...

Book review: Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty: Forever king...

The Scotsman;  April 29, 2006 ;   George Kerevan;   747 words ...Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty by...Enlightenment revolutionary. His name was Adam Smith, founder of the equally subversive science...mini-industry in revisionist accounts of Adam Smith. The best is Professor Gavin Kennedy...

Adam Smith's Market Place of Life.(Book Review)

Independent Review;  January 1, 2005 ;   Costelloe, Timothy M.;   787 words ......in the introduction to Adam Smith's Market Place of Life, in recent years Adam Smith's work has received a...18)--and describes the impartial spectator procedure through which...arises from applying the impartial-spectator procedure to our own ...

Adam Smith sculpture to tower over Royal Mile

Evening News - Scotland;  September 26, 2007 ;   Michael Blackley Business Reporter;   445 words ......modern thinking. A towering statue of Adam Smith - the Scottish pioneer of economics...Cross. Dr Eamonn Butler, director of the Adam Smith Institute, the authoritative research...fantastic site. It used to be a market and Adam Smith is the father of the marketplace, so...

Who was Adam Smith, and does he deserve to be on our banknotes? ; The big...

The Independent - London;  October 31, 2006 ;   MARY DEJEVSKY;   787 words ...Why is Adam Smith in the news? The Governor of the Bank...King, has announced that a portrait of Adam Smith will feature on a redesigned [pound...most often counterfeited. So who was Adam Smith and what did he do to deserve this recognition...

Turning to Adam Smith. (publications on life and works of political...

Atlantic Economic Journal;  March 1, 1998 ;   Porta, Pier Luigi;   787 words ......Ian Simpson Ross's long-awaited Life of Adam Smith (being the closing step of the Oxford...edition of the works and correspondence of Adam Smith) affords the proper opportunity for some...amount of renewed attention to which Adam Smith has been subjected through the last 20-o...

Don't blame Adam Smith for all this nonsense ; EDITORIAL & OPINION

The Independent - London;  March 14, 2007 ;   MARK STEEL;   787 words ...Adam Smith, Margaret Thatcher's favourite economist...of us know him mostly because of the Adam Smith Institute which, in the 1980s, was always...stories like: "A new report from the Adam Smith Institute has discovered babies are lame-du...

Obituary: Janet Adam Smith

The Independent - London;  September 13, 1999 ;   Leonard Miall;   787 words ......there seemed to be nothing at which Janet Adam Smith did not shine. And she shone with an...Her father, the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith, had been Principal of Aberdeen University...review books for The Listener. Janet Adam Smith had been properly instructed in mountaineering...

Monumental profits; Adam Smith.(The economist's house is on the market)

The Economist (US);  March 15, 2008 ;     477 words ......council put on the market the house where Adam Smith spent his last 12 years, from 1778 until...the Earls of Panmure and the home of Adam Smith. His grave just off the High Street was...plaques. The town also hosts an annual Adam Smith lecture, given in recent years, thanks...

GOV. BARBOUR AWARDED 2008 ADAM SMITH MEDAL FOR RESPONSIBLE, EFFECTIVE...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 10, 2008 ;     375 words ......Mississippi's 63rd governor. The Friends of Adam Smith presents the award annually to an elected...government and a worthy successor to Adam Smith's ideals of free commerce, low taxation...the organization will present the 2008 Adam Smith Medal to Governor Barbour during a banquet...

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and William F. Aldinger III,...

PR Newswire;  February 4, 2004 ;     664 words ......Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Friends of Adam Smith (FOAS) today announced the winners of the 2004 Adam Smith Awards: U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison...accept their awards at the fifth annual Adam Smith Awards Dinner, April 27, 2004 at 6:00...

Fife snubs Adam Smith on new sign

The Scotsman;  June 8, 1998 ;   BRIAN LIRONI;   450 words ......birthplace of the philosopher and economist Adam Smith. Each year hundreds of tourists visit...Welcome to Kirkcaldy - The birthplace of Adam Smith". Now they read: "Kirkcaldy - Twin Town...world because of Kirkcaldy's links with Adam Smith. It is disgraceful that his name has...

Adam Smith and Greed

Journal of Private Enterprise;  October 1, 2005 ;   Wight, Jonathan B;   787 words ......in the 20th century. Allegedly it is Adam Smith who provides this new dignity to greed...for example, implicitly assume that Adam Smith's self-interest is the greed that promotes...American culture, but the association of Adam Smith with these views is simply wrong. Smith...

Adam Smith claimed by the Left

The Scotsman;  April 26, 2002 ;   Tara Womersley;   345 words ...GORDON Brown sought to claim Adam Smith, the 18th century author of the Wealth of...the question I think we've got to ask, is Adam Smith, the author of The Invisible Hand, also the Adam Smith who believes in the helping hand? "Would...