On Art & Value in Use (or exchange) and Merit in Adam Smith
Recently Professor Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern) wrote me about the possible elision between artistic merit and price in Adam Smith. I was initially a bit surprised by Zuckert's concern because in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith's official definition of merit -- "In the beneficial... nature of the effects which the affection aims at, or tends to …
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