IASS 2025

Session

E.2 SESSION: ADAM SMITH IN RETROSPECT

29 Mar 2025, 09:10

ROOM 2

85. Adam Smith in the Writings of Vilfredo Pareto

Manuela Mosca (University of Salento)

29/03/2025, 09:10

This presentation explores Vilfredo Pareto's relationship with Adam Smith and how the former engaged with, criticized, and built upon Smith’s ideas in his own economic theories. In Mosca (2018) I aimed to demonstrate the Italian marginalists’ desire to be seen as continuing the classical tradition, with their stated theoretical goal being to translate the classical theories into more rigorous...

31. Adam Smith on Economic Progress-cum-Equality. What was left in development economics?

Claudia Sunna (Università del Salento)

29/03/2025, 09:40

The distinctive feature of Adam Smith’s analysis on the progress of wealth is to incorporate a clear vision on equality, namely the association of the progressive state with an increase in per-capita income.
After illustrating Smith's perspective, the study will analyze how development economists approached the issue of income and wealth distribution in relation to their concept of...

28. Adam Smith’s legacy against slavery: old and new perspectives

Simona Pisanelli (Università del Salento)

29/03/2025, 10:10

In 2020, the Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Group proposed the removal of a series of monuments dedicated to distinguished Scottish personalities who allegedly supported colonialism and slavery. At first, Adam Smith was included in the list because of his alleged proposal “to moderate slavery and improve its profitability with wages”.
Actually, Smith was a well-known...