Economic struggles and economic development: Transformations in the development of a theme
This dissertation develops a Hobbesian reading of the texts of Adam Smith and Karl Marx on economic development. The individualist tradition in social theory starts with the assumption that the social behavior of individuals is driven by self-interest. Thomas Hobbes deduced from this that granting f...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1992
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9305900 |