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Adam Smith’s Economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: The Language of Commerce

In: Adam Smith’s System

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  • Benoît Walraevens

    (University of Caen Normandy)

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Under the light of Adam Smith’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (LRBL), the aim of this paper will be to reinterpret some Smithian economic and moral issues. More precisely, it will try to highlight the relationship between discursive practice and economic reality in apparent simplicity, exchange. According to Smith, the essence and foundation of exchange and commerce lies in language. The departure point of this study will be to examine the dichotomy that he establishes between two main types of discourse: the rhetorical discourserhetorical discourse and the didactic discoursedidactic discourse.

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  • Benoît Walraevens, 2022. "Adam Smith’s Economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: The Language of Commerce," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Adam Smith’s System, chapter 6, pages 141-166, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-99704-5_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99704-5_6
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