Political economy and the social disciplines: the modern life of Das Adam Smith Problem
揭示经济学中关于自我的标准观点误读了亚当·斯密，更接近霍布斯的利己主义，并批评这种狭隘自我观无法解释社会、历史和心理现象，而试图通过学科扩张来弥补的做法反而复制了霍布斯框架，最终指出社会学、社会史等学科的发展未能摆脱亚当·斯密问题的束缚。
The standard vision of the self in economics has been backdated onto a misrepresented Adam Smith but has more in common with the egoistic vision of Thomas Hobbes. This self, given its narrowness, has provoked criticism concerning its adequacy for explaining social, historical and psychological phenomena. The latter are then addressed within a framework that reproduces their Hobbesian origin by ceding a territory of self-interest, rational choice, to economics and so looks to disciplinary proliferation to cover the areas left aside. In this manner we shall show an anti-Whig history as much constrained by its origins as what it contests. Both sides have reproduced uncritically the framework of Das Adam Smith Problem. Here we investigate how developments of sociology, social history, socio-economics and economic psychology have not been able to exit from the terms of that problem.