The Birth of Economic Rhetoric (eBook)

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.

1. The Setting of the Play1.1. Introduction1.2. The Scottish Enlightenment 1.3. The Birth of Rhetoric1.4. Concepts of time2. Hume and Smith: Truth and Experience2.1. Friendship is in similarities2.2. But allure is in differences 2.3. A literary strategy2.4. Adam Smith’s piety3. David Hume3.1. The life of David Hume3.2. Scepticism 3.2.1. Epistemological scepticism3.2.2. Moral naturalism3.3. Conservatism 3.4. Doctrine of utility 3.4.1. Morality3.4.2. Utility3.4.3. Sympathy 3.4.4. Suicide3.4.5. Justice4. Adam Smith4.1. Smith’s realism4.2. Perception and pleasure4.3. The Self4.3.1. The reactive self4.3.2. The active self            4.4. Rationality 4.5. Sympathy5. Rhetoric in Hume and Smith5.1. The first formation of language5.2. Rhetoric and the theories of language5.3. The literary critique5.4. The invention of imitation5.5. Theatre 6. Consequences for Economic Theory6.1. Time and economics 6.2. Language and economics 6.3. Economic growth 6.4. Money issues7. Conclusion