Adam Smith, un liberalismo bien temperado

Due to the huge fortune that has met the Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam smith is deemed as the “founder father” of political classical economy. A quick reading of his work has sometimes allowed the conversion of this renowned “economist” into a simply liberal thinker, in a partial meaning of this word. The Wealth of Nations, a complex work, deserves a more careful reading. Although Adam Smith is mainly known as political economist, one cannot forget that he taught a subject of moral philosophy and that he deserved ample acknowledgment for his Theory of Moral Sentiments, where he developed the moral principles that supported many of his economic conceptsGracias a la inmensa fortuna que ha conocido Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith es considerado como el “padre fundador” de la economía política clásica. Una lectura rápida de la obra ha permitido a veces hacer del célebre economista un pensador simplemente liberal, en una acepción parcial de la palabra. La Riqueza de las naciones merece una lectura cuidadosa. Aunque Smith es conocido principalmente como economista político, no hay que olvidar que fue titular de una cátedra de filosofía moral y que adquirió notoriedad gracias al éxito de otra gran obra suya, la Teoría de los sentimientos morales (1759)