The Theory of Moral Sentiments

9 recorded talks in this archive name this book. The 6 that discuss it most, each linked to the moment it comes up:

• Adam Smith and Ludwig von Mises on the Moral Framework

  Walton Padelford · Austrian Scholars Conference 2012

  In addition to his great work in economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith also wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments, in which he treats the springs of man's moral conduct.

  Hear it at 1:39

• The Cantillon Legacy: Extending Rothbardian Revisionism

  Mark Thornton · Austrian Scholars Conference 2005

  In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith tells of the unfeeling landlord who need not look after his lands but is forced to distribute most of what is produced to the laborers.

  Hear it at 12:05

• Epistemological Roots of the Present Crises

  Harry Veryser · Austrian Scholars Conference 2012

  … though he claimed to have a doctorate in economics, I knew he had a problem when And he told me that Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments after he wrote The Wealth of Nations because he felt guilty.

  Hear it at 8:53

• 1. J.B. Say: The French Tradition in Smithian Clothing

  Murray N. Rothbard · Classical Economics

  And Condorcet's widow, Madame de Grouchy, continued the family interest in Smithian studies by preparing a French translation of The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

  Hear it at 5:31

• 16. The Celebrated Adam Smith

  Murray N. Rothbard · Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

  Assessors, from Cattillon, from Turgot, from his teacher Hutchison, from the Spanish Scholastics, even, oddly enough, from his own previous works, such as The Lectures on Jurisprudence, Unpublished, 1762 and 63 and 1766, and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759.

  Hear it at 4:10

• 16. The Celebrated Adam Smith (continued)

  Murray N. Rothbard · Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

  In the first place, Smith retreated from the absolutist natural law position that he had set forth in his ethical work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1757.

  Hear it at 28:22