...Maik Huettinger; Jonathan Andrew Boyd Purpose The purpose of this paper is to approach the issue of taxation of robotic process automation (RPA) through an interpretive lens provided by both Adam Smith and Karl Marx. Both scholars have affected the understanding and attitudes of generations...

... of economic depression. The deregulation of financial markets raises two questions: to what extent is deregulation the result of a misunderstanding about human nature and the behavioral lessons of social economics; and to what extend does deregulation ignore the moral lessons of Adam Smith’s invisible hand...

...Satoshi Niimura Purpose There has been controversy about whether Adam Smith is an economic egalitarian because he expresses at least four distinct views on equality, in two of which, he approves of inequality, and in the other two, he claims otherwise. The purpose of this paper is to isolate...

... of production. This aspect of Adam Smith had been initially posed by Ricardo and subsequently was widely adopted by the major economists of the past as well as from the majority of the modern historians of economic thought. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews the major interpretation...

...Jim Alvey Vivienne   Brown . Adam Smith′s Discourse . London : Routledge   1994 . ix + 243 pp , ISBN: 0‐415‐08160‐2 , hbk © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Adam Smith Economics Economists The status of Adam Smith in economics is fundamental. The proper...

...Peter McNamara Jeffrey T.   Young . Economics as a Moral Science: The Political Economy of Adam Smith . Cheltenham, UK; Lyme, US : Edward Elgar   1997 . pp. 225 + x , ISBN: 1858982677 © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Adam Smith Economics Economists Moral...

... less antagonistic and confining. Salim   Rashid . The Myth of Adam Smith . Elgar : Cheltenham   1998 . pp. xii 227 + , ISBN: 1‐85898‐532‐3 © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Adam Smith Economics Economists History Taken in one large dose like this, Rashid′s tone...

... at the outset not even to try to find the “authentic Adam Smith,” it is clear that he could not have taken seriously Smith’s claim to have discovered the truth about nature, human nature, and the best form of society (p. xxvi). Shapiro is only interested in “confronting” and “turning down” Smith. This approach...