Smithian
- adjective
- /ˈsmɪθiən/
- Formal
- To make sense of the form, the divide between the Smithian and Schumpeterian growth epochs is much more useful than the dynamics of reach.
Examples
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So does this spark a real departure kind of let's say Dawkins Smithian framework something else?
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I: Smithian Growth and the Mercantilist Economy (1600–1800)
Blog text (32) -
The idea of super ego is very similar right to this Adam Smithian idea.
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Mercantilist models of economic growth map to what Joel Mokyr calls Smithian Growth, after Adam Smith.
Blog text (32) -
Fifty years later, in 1976, conditions had become uniquely propitious for the celebration of Smithian policy as well as theory.
Academic text (1992) -
It is hard to look beyond ideology and elegant models to see the world as it really is, a world in which capitalism of the Smithian variety is being consistently outperformed.
Academic text (1992) -
Bauer was a most perceptive reader of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, in a time when Smithian scholarship was not as ubiquitous as it is today.
Academic text (2018) -
If one did choose to infer the ideas behind policies followed by bureaucrats in elite Japanese economic ministries, those ideas reflect Schumpeterian tenets more than Keynesian or Smithian ones.
Academic text (1991) -
Liberal economic policies are being imposed by an illiberal political regime that hopes to combine what Clifford Geertz once characterized as a combination of a Smithian way of getting rich with a Hobbesian way of governing.
Academic text (1998) -
The government implemented several Smithian policies to promote free trade and economic growth.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Smithian = Smith (transparent) = Smith + ian
The suffix '-ian' is used to form adjectives indicating a relationship to Adam Smith.
Etymology
Smithian comes from the name Smith, especially the economist Adam Smith, who said markets often work best when people trade freely, an idea called the 'invisible hand'. So a Smithian idea supports the 'free market' and less government control.