This article critiques the sympathetic market-exchange thesis in Adam Smith, highlighting its moral implications in economic interactions.
This article critically addresses the “sympathetic market-exchange” thesis in Adam Smith scholarship, which is the interpretative thesis that posits an analogy between sympathy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and market exchange in the Wealth of Nations such that there is a moral dimension to market exchange.
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