Overview
- Introduces Adam Smith's Rhetoric Lectures, contextualising their importance alongside the work of Addison and Burke
- Considers the consequences of language for economic theory
- Brings together economic theory and philosophy in one study
- Presents the Scottish Enlightenment as an innovative event with its own characteristics
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This book explores and compares the works of two great economists and philosophers, David Hume and Adam Smith, considering their contributions to language, perception, sympathy, reason, art and theatre to find a general theory of rationality and economics. The author considers and analyses both figures through a range of approaches, and moves on to demonstrate how different concepts of language affect Hume's and Smith's idea of value and economic growth. This book contributes to a wider literature on communication and language to demonstrate that economics is linked to rhetoric and is an essential part of human nature.
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About the author
Estrella Trincado is Professor of Economic History and History of Economic Thought at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Her research interests specialise in the history of economic thought in general and in classical economics in particular. In 2011 she won the Young Scholar of the Year award presented at the European Society for the History of Economic Thought(ESHET). Estrella is an author of books and has contributed to book chapters and a number of papers published in international journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Birth of Economic Rhetoric
Book Subtitle: Communication, Arts and Economic Stimulus in David Hume and Adam Smith
Authors: Estrella Trincado
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14306-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14305-3Published: 11 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14306-0Published: 28 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 218
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Cultural Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Theoretical Linguistics