The objectives of each discipline are different and, once one is mapped onto the other, it is unclear if there is truly any tension between them. Homo economicus, however, has no overarching philosophical assumptions on what he values. Our study argues that the purpose of the sociological man is to identify who he is, how he interacts with people within a society, and the antecedents to such behaviors. However, recent papers on behavioral and experimental economics provide insights into a possible reconciliation. A reconciliation of the two sapiens is difficult. In the Wealth of Nations, he uses the phrase ‘invisible hand’ exactly once. His use of the invisible hand in the Wealth of Nations is what those economics textbooks commonly attribute as the first key usage (Rosalsky). Smith's use of the 'Invisible Hand', as pointed out by Gavin Kennedy, is a metaphor provided for the great percentage of readers of the Wealth of Nations whom Smith realized would not be able to grasp the nature of his argument ,which was about the ambiguity-uncertainty aversion of the majority of 18 th century English business men. The article then shows how the economic man in the strategic age is slowly finding convergence with the sociological man (Homo sociologicus). One of the fathers of economics is Adam Smith, an 18th century Scottish Enlightenment philosopher. By analyzing the discourse of economic articles, we provide a chronological account of the economic man’s intellectual and philosophical development as it evolved from what we term the philosophical age to the neoclassical age and finally to the strategic age. The general rule, on the contrary, is formed, by finding from experience, that all actions of a certain kind, or circumstanced in a certain manner, are approved or disapproved of.This article studies the evolution of the economic man (Homo economicus) from its original conception until the current day. We do not originally approve or condemn particular actions because, upon examination, they appear to be agreeable or inconsistent with a certain general rule. They are ultimately founded upon experience of what, in particular instances, our moral faculties, our natural sense of merit and propriety, approve, or disapprove of. It is thus that the general rules of morality are formed. We become ambitious of performing the like and thus naturally lay down to ourselves a rule of another kind, that every opportunity of acting in this manner is carefully to be sought after. They excite all those sentiments for which we have by nature the strongest desire the love, the gratitude, the admiration of mankind. And they can employ labour-saving machinery to boost. ![]() By specialising, people can use their talents, or acquire skill. Using the example of a pin factory, Smith shows how specialisation can boost human productivity enormously. Every body is eager to honour and reward them. The Wealth Of Nations begins with Smith explaining production and exchange, and their contribution to national income. Other actions, on the contrary, call forth our approbation, and we hear every body around us express the same favourable opinion concerning them. We thus naturally lay down to ourselves a general rule, that all such actions are to be avoided, as tending to render us odious, contemptible, or punishable, the objects of all those sentiments for which we have the greatest dread and aversion. We resolve never to be guilty of the like, nor ever, upon any account, to render ourselves in this manner the objects of universal disapprobation. ![]() It satisfies us that we view them in the proper light, when we see other people view them in the same light. This still further confirms, and even exasperates our natural sense of their deformity. systematic aspects of Adam Smiths economics which make little sense when read in isolation from a literature in which David Hume provides the signal. We hear every body about us express the like detestation against them. ![]() Some of their actions shock all our natural sentiments. Our continual observations upon the conduct of others, insensibly lead us to form to ourselves certain general rules concerning what is fit and proper either to be done or to be avoided. Nature, however, has not left this weakness, which is of so much importance, altogether without a remedy nor has she abandoned us entirely to the delusions of self-love. If we saw ourselves in the light in which others see us, or in which they would see us if they knew all, a reformation would generally be unavoidable. “This self-deceit, this fatal weakness of mankind, is the source of half the disorders of human life.
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