Benjamin Franklin and Adam Smith
挖掘富兰克林和斯密共有的18世纪经济生活观，认为经济行为服务于更持久的道德、公民和政治目标，并挑战韦伯《新教伦理与资本主义精神》对富兰克林经济秩序解读的影响。
This article seeks to recover an eighteenth-century understanding of the character and significance of economic life common to both Benjamin Franklin and Adam Smith. This account, which pertained in particular to economic life in North America, placed economic endeavors within a larger account of commercial and political life. Moreover, in the American case in particular, this larger vision understood economic life as a potentially transient chapter of life, one that served the larger and more permanent moral, civic, and political components. This paper concludes by challenging the profound influence of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism on our understanding of Franklin and the economic order he helped shape. In so challenging, it seeks to restore the deliberately incomplete and implicitly teleological economic ethos promoted by both Franklin and Smith.