Most Adam Smith scholars hold that endorsed public provision of education to offset deleterious consequences arising from the division labor. Smith’s putative endorsement publicly funded is taken by some as evidence he tends more toward progressive than classical liberalism, or this a departure from, perhaps an inconsistency with, otherwise strong presumption against government intervention in ...

Part of the difficulty of introducing social economics into the principles course is the perception that social economics is anathema to mainstream economics. 1 As noted by Warren Samuels, however, "neoclassical economics is already a form of social economics" despite its "pretensions of methodological individualism and value-neutrality" [Samuels, p. 2]. Heilbroner also makes the case that the ...