SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scottish Highlands, British Agricultural Revolution, Human Capital
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Adam smith, scotland is calvinist country with higher levels of literacy and developed education, disliked oxford, full of drunken professors not doing any work, at the age of 28 he became a professor in glasgow. He taught logic, politics, economics, moral philosophy (social psych) He was concerned with how people actually are. In 1759 he produced his first book the theory of moral sentiments (an account of how human beings behave) It seems as if in adam smith there is a contradiction, self-interests vs sympathy: how do you combine the self-interest in the wealth of nation and the sentiment of sympathy in moral sentiment. He was the tutor to the son of a scottish aristocrat then accompanied him on a grand tour of european capitals. At this time, capitalism is born in england and the lowland of. Smith"s world is that of the 18 century enlightenment, they (smith + hume) wanted to be a part of a polished, refined world.
