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How should we reconcile self-regarding and pro-social motivations? A renaissance of “Das Adam Smith Problem”
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“Das Adam Smith Problem” is the name given by eighteenth-century German scholars to the question of how to reconcile the role of self-interest in the Wealth of Nations with Smith’s advocacy of sympathy in Theory of Moral Sentiments. As the discipline of economics developed, it focused on the interaction of selfish agents, pursuing their private interests. However, behavioral economists have rediscovered the existence and importance of multiple motivations, and a new Das Adam Smith Problem has...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 274.8KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S0265052520000059
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Social Philosophy and Policy Journal website
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 80-102
- Publication date:
- 2021-01-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-04-21
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1471-6437
- ISSN:
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0265-0525
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- English
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pubs:995181
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- pubs:995181
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995181
- Deposit date:
- 2019-05-01
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- Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 2019.
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052520000059
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