Definitions
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- adjective of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a person bearing the surname
Smith - adjective economics of or characteristic of the theories of the political economist Adam Smith
- adjective geology of a regional geological
stage of the Early Triassicepoch (249.7 – 247.4 Ma; preceded by the Dienerian and followed by the Spathian)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Arrighi takes up Brenner's distinction between 'Smithian' and Marxist models of development in order to analyse the so-called 'economic renaissance of East Asia.'
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET 2008
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Arrighi claims that a form of 'Smithian' market-based development occurred in China between the 16 th and 18th centuries.
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET 2008
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What it means is that in a debate, Tyler will use a Smithian advocac of free markets to cut Macchiavelli's cynicism with an Occam's razor.
Most Bizarre Sentence Ever?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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However, I think they come from the (double) Smithian subject of personal vs impersonal exchange.
Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Already an old man, when the story was set in the first half of the 18th century, Scrooge would have grown up before the triumph of the Smithian ideas and the repeal of the hunger-inducing, protectionist "corn laws."
A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say Jerry Bowyer 2011
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"It's the ultimate moral molecule," says Zak, who describes himself as a "born-again Smithian".
Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? 2011
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Already an old man, when the story was set in the first half of the 18th century, Scrooge would have grown up before the triumph of the Smithian ideas and the repeal of the hunger-inducing, protectionist "corn laws."
A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say Jerry Bowyer 2011
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Smithian Unit! by William Whitten on Monday, Feb 2, 2009 at 9: 55: 44 AM
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What would you think of someone who studied economic entities and their interactions in a modern free market economy and insisted that they were, despite a perfectly reasonable and empirically supported Smithian account of their development, the consequence of some all-powerful, detail-obsessed economic law-giver?
Evolution vs. Intelligent Design, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If Roma or Indians, or the less intimidating sort of Will Smithian black folk, or woppy old ladies or whomever they give powers to in movies these days had magical powers, they really wouldn't have problems.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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