Download or read book Adam Smith and the Economy of the Passions written by Jan Horst Keppler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book links economic theory, information theory and several psychoanalytic notions to show how Adam Smith provides the psychological determinants of human behaviour from which market economics arises as an imperfect but inevitable consequence.