Where Economic Scientificity Postulates its own Subversion: the Scenes of Conflict in the Political Economy of Adam Smith
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Where Economic Scientificity Postulates its own Subversion: the Scenes of Conflict in the Political Economy of Adam Smith |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Anders Fjeld; Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7; France |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Political philosophy; political economy; political theory; social sciences and subdisciplines |
| 3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Political economy; Social conflict; Scientificity; Adam Smith; Modern economy |
| 3. | Subject | Subject classification | 720704 |
| 4. | Description | Abstract | I discuss how the scientificity characterizing Adam Smith’s political economy has to exteriorize social conflict in order to sustain its objectivation of social interaction in terms of regulative laws. I claim that this exteriorization constitutes an internal point of subversion, not only because it resists economic objectivation, but first and foremost because it forces Smith to employ political strategies that both contradict and guarantee the scientificity of his theory. I show how the place of conflict in modern economy, according to Smith, can actually be determined in three different ways: as a concrete place when it comes to the confrontations between workers and capitalists; as a theoretical place in the sense of being an arbitrary disturbance of the spontaneous organization of the market; and as a place that, as being the intersection between economic naturalization and social contingency, problematizes the scientificity of Smith’s political economy. In this sense, I develop three cases where Smith invokes an argumentative circularity that reveals the paradoxical politics of his economic scientificity, beyond its official laissez-faire politics: State coercion, monetary power and capitalist competition. |
| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
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| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2017-06-30 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 9. | Format | File format | PDF (Español), HTML (Español) |
| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://lastorresdelucca.org/index.php/ojs/article/view/132 |
| 11. | Source | Title; vol., no. (year) | Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy; Vol 6, No 10 (2017): January-June |
| 12. | Language | English=en | es |
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| 15. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright (c) 2017 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |