The anthropological breakdown of the neoclassical economics
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Neoclassical economics takes as one of its main foundations the reflection contained in The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, which derives an understanding of man as being exclusively focused on maximizing his particular interest. However, to carry out a correct understanding of the work of Smith, it is necessary to analyze the anthropological basis contained in his work, certainly much more complex than the one considered by the neoclassical tradition. In this article we aim to study the anthropological approach of Adam Smith, to show the deviations in the reception and interpretation of this approach and some of the consequences that it has generated in our economic development. For this purpose, we offer a comparison between the anthropological basis of the neoclassical Economy and a more complete focus raised by the French philosopher Jacques Maritain. From the comparison between these two models, we conclude the need of rebuilding the anthropological bases in the current economic development, heiress of neoclassical, in a more complete and comprehensive vision of the wealth of human nature.
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