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The Birth of Economic Rhetoric

Communication, Arts and Economic Stimulus in David Hume and Adam Smith

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Authors:
  1. Estrella Trincado

    1. Facultad CC. Economicas y Empresariales, Complutense University of Madrid, Campus de Somosaguas, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

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  • 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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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. The Setting of the Play

    • Estrella Trincado
    Pages 1-13

  3. Hume and Smith, Truth and Experience

    • Estrella Trincado
    Pages 15-34

  4. David Hume

    • Estrella Trincado
    Pages 35-86

  5. Adam Smith

    • Estrella Trincado
    Pages 87-117

  6. Rhetoric in Hume and Smith

    • Estrella Trincado
    Pages 119-151

  7. Consequences on Economic Theory

    • Estrella Trincado
    Pages 153-183

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 185-218
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Facultad CC. Economicas y Empresariales, Complutense University of Madrid, Campus de Somosaguas, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

    Estrella Trincado

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.

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