@article{1440526,
      author = {Fiori, Stefano.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1440526},
      title = {Machines, bodies and invisible hands : metaphors of order  and economic theory in Adam Smith /},
      abstract = {What was Adam Smiths intellectual laboratory? How did his  economic theory take shape? Were his metaphors of order  only residual and ornamental expressions? This book answers  these questions by analyzing the formation of the concepts  of market and social order in Adam Smiths work, by  considering various aspects of his approach. It analyzes  how metaphors and pre-analytical concepts influenced Smiths  theory. In line with studies that deal with the cognitive  role of metaphors in science, this book suggests that in  Smiths work metaphors provided a framework, on which basis  the theory subsequently developed. Therefore, as such they  were part of that intellectual process which made possible  the formation of structured concepts. The content and scope  of the book permits a more comprehensive interpretation of  Smiths thought, in which many aspects of his work are taken  into consideration in order to explain a crucial problem  for Smith: the nature and causes of social and economic  order. The book also shows that in general, formation of  theories is a complex process that includes pre-analytical  views as non-residual parts of inquiry. Stefano Fiori  teaches economics in the Department of Economics and  Statistics Cognetti de Martiis University of Torino, Italy.  His research fields focus on the history of economic  thought and on the connection between philosophy,  economics, and other social sciences, viewed in historical  perspective. His scientific interests include pre-classical  and classical economics, Austrian economics, institutional  and new institutional economics, economic methodology, and  theories of bounded rationality.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85206-1},
      recid = {1440526},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}