title: “EUGENE ONEGIN”, ECONOMICS, AND ADAM SMITH’S “THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS”
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metadata.value: Boborykina, Tatiana A.
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metadata.value: Kadochnikov, Denis V.
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metadata.value: Taylor, John A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-10-24T12:26:26Z
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metadata.value: 2024-10-24T12:26:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/2782-1943.2023.05
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47809
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metadata.value: Adam Smith’s system of moral philosophy is now out of fashion. Nowhere is
  that clearer than in economics. Today’s economists revere Smith’s “Wealth of
  Nations”, but they often neglect his “Theory of Moral Sentiments”. Economics
  needs reform, however. Everyone admits it. One possible reform could be a reconsideration
  of the economic role of f moral philosophy. This essay argues that
  economists could use Alexander Pushkin’s great poem “Eugene Onegin” as a
  model for revisiting Smith’s moral philosophy, and to bring Smith’s “Moral Sentiments”
  back into fashion. Economists could thus bring the discussion of moral
  philosophy back into economics. Smith influenced Pushkin, and we begin
  this essay with a restatement of the facts about that influence. These facts come
  from Michael Alekseev. We next recount the argument about moral philosophy,
  which Smith made in his book on moral sentiments, and we claim to see Smith’s
  moral philosophy in Pushkin’s great poem “Eugene Onegin”. However, and this
  is the main point of this paper, Smith’s moral philosophy needs revision. People
  today seldom find it timely or persuasive. That means that economists tend
  now not to read Smith’s book on moral sentiments carefully — so they, wrongly,
  find in “Wealth of Nations” another argument entirely. They think the book is
  about an unrestrained and natural liberty for selfishness. Smith would not have
  wished his name to be associated with any such argument because he thought
  greed was ugly and immoral. Pushkin’s “Onegin” contained a revision of Smith’s
  moral philosophy, we believe. To support his view, we offer Boris Eifman’s brilliant
  contemporary ballet “Eugene Onegin” as a model for further commentary
  on this problem. That ballet shows “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” — even
  literally — in action. Economists should read “Onegin”, and they could use the
  poem to update both economics and Smith’s moral philosophy.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Synergy of Languages & Cultures 2023: Interdiscipilinary Studies;
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alekseev
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Freud
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: greed
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: liberty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: moral sentiments
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nietzsche
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pushkin
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Onegin
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Adam Smith
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “EUGENE ONEGIN”, ECONOMICS, AND ADAM SMITH’S “THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS”
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metadata.value: Article
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