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SUMMARY:More like apes than angels: natural history and the political econ
 omy of David Hume and Adam Smith - Margaret Schabas (University of British
  Columbia)
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CONTACT:David Allan Feller
DESCRIPTION:Though historians have argued that the Scottish Enlightenment
 ’s unifying trope was that of natural history\, the ties of natural hist
 ory to the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith have remained un
 der explored. Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia\, currently
  at the London School of Economics) argues against this oversight.  Based 
 on\, inter alia\, Hume’s use of analogies between economic phenomena and
  plants and animals\, and Smith’s similar interest in the work of Linnae
 us and other aspects of natural history\, Schabas presents the intriguing 
 argument that there were strong links between natural history and politica
 l economy well before Darwin discovered Malthus.   
LOCATION:CU Department of the History and Philosophy of Science
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