Essays on Adam Smith

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The first issue the author emphasizes on is the connection between poverty and inequality. Adam Smith was of the view that poverty cannot be divorced from inequality. The author suggests that this could be the missing link in formulating policies that effectively eradicate poverty. The author also mentions the idea of ‘prodigals and projectors’ who Jeremy Bentham dismissed as innovators. Adam Smith warned that since these people are often left to their own devices, they could disrupt market operations. The author avers that such persons could have led to the global financial crisis.
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Invisible hand concept

A great economist, philosopher, scholar and researcher Adam Smith passed this world a few centuries ago and left us quite controversial matters to be discussed and clarified. Famous and prominent scholars tend to leave us certain mysteries for this world to wonder.

In his book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, Adam Smith asserts:

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous

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Economic Thought

1. Ibn Khaldun in his work The Muqaddimah has as a central organizing principle for society. His concept of Asabiyyah, or social cohesion, refers to the social bonds that form as a result of divisions of labor. Explain how this principle is derived from this “division of labor.” 
Prolegomena is a book written by North African Muslim historian, Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history. Called “Muqaddimah” the

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Introduction

In the second half of XX century a trend towards scaling up and strengthening the role of the state in the economic sphere. At the same time it is recognized that the highest efficiency is achieved in a competitive market mechanism. Therefore, the state aims to not adjust the market mechanism, and to create conditions for its free operation, providing a high level of competition. Competition should be wherever possible regulatory influence of the state, and wherever it is needed. Most economists converge in the understanding that the "invisible hand of the market" is required to be supplemented by

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Adam smith was a moral philosopher and a political economist who made significant contributions in various theories of philosophy, as well as economics. His contributions play a crucial role in the modern scholars and learners as they are used as the basis of reference. The economist as well as a philosopher was a university lecturer where most of his research work was conducted. Smith conducted a research on the nature of the wealth of individuals and moral conditions of individuals publishing two books namely, the theory of moral sentiments in the year 1959, and an inquiry into the nature

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The idea behind the diamond-water paradox starts with the concept of value. According to Adam Smith, value can be defined to mean the “value in use” or “value in exchange”. Those that have the greatest value in use will have the smallest value in exchange. In the same way, those that have the greatest value in exchange will have the smallest value in use. As such, we possess things of high value in use to acquire those things with high value in exchange and vice versa. For example, water has a very high value in use while diamond has

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