The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith · first published 1759
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Mike Munger on EconTalk (2026-09-28): mention
“…In Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith talks about the fact that the soldier…”
Public Choice and Politics Without Romance (with Mike Munger)
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2026-07-20): mention
“…he wrote this other book called The Theory of Moral Sentiment.…”
Ross Levine on EconTalk (2026-04-20): mention
“…So, actually, the reading of The Theory of Moral Sentiments--I'll tell you a little story about that.…”
Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)
Ross Levine on EconTalk (2026-04-20): mention
“…it was one of the ways in which Smith opens up The Theory of Moral Sentiments, his first book…”
Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)
Anthony Gill on EconTalk (2025-11-10): recommend
“…We need to read Smith's Theory of Mortal Sentiments and not necessarily rue that the world is collapsing…”
Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)
Anthony Gill on EconTalk (2025-11-10): mention
“…going through The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which is a difficult book to get through…”
Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)
Paul Bloom on EconTalk (2025-05-26): recommend
“…I'm less enamored of him, but I often reread The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and there's so much rich stuff there…”
Russ Roberts on Conversations with Tyler (2024-11-25): mention
“…the Adam Smith quote from The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate (Ep. 227 - BONUS)
Michael Munger on EconTalk (2023-09-18): mention
“…But remember, Smith, in Theory of Moral Sentiments, talks about four sources of sentiments…”
Michael Munger on EconTalk (2023-09-18): mention
“…Smith, page 138, in Theory of Moral Sentiments:…”
Michael Munger on EconTalk (2023-09-18): mention
“…on page 136 of the Liberty Fund edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Michael Munger on EconTalk (2023-06-19): mention
“…I listen several times to the six podcasts that you and Dan Klein did about the Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2022-04-18): recommend
“…Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. It's definitely a book you should read, in particular.…”
John List on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-01-28): recommend
“…I would say go to the Moral Sentiments because there you’ve got kind of the behavioralist…”
Ruth Scurr on Conversations with Tyler (2021-12-01): mention
“…his archive is full of notes and annotations to The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Johann Hari on EconTalk (2021-09-06): recommend
“…The Theory of Moral Sentiments is really a masterpiece on this question.…”
Michael Munger on EconTalk (2021-08-09): mention
“…So, Adam Smith, when he was writing Theory of Moral Sentiments was trying to create, that's--I agree with Dan Klein--that's his most libertarian book.…”
Michael McCullough on EconTalk (2021-02-01): mention
“…So, it seems to me, in TMS--in the Theory of Moral Sentiments--Smith is trying to bring several of these pieces together.…”
Matthew Crawford on EconTalk (2021-01-04): mention
“…I haven't read The Theory of Moral Sentiments.…”
Branko Milanovic on EconTalk (2020-12-07): mention
“…The Theory of Moral Sentiments deals with our relationship with family, friends, relatives, tribe, clan, and the past…”
Branko Milanovic on EconTalk (2020-12-07): mention
“…the entire work of all the Wealth of Nations, and actually as you, of course, highlighted, The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Agnes Callard on EconTalk (2020-09-28): mention
“…So, Smith has this fascinating passage--I think it's towards the end of Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Michael Munger on EconTalk (2020-08-17): mention
“…me re-listening to you and Dan Klein talk about, in six episodes, talking about The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Ryan Holiday on EconTalk (2019-10-07): mention
“…when I read your book on Adam Smith, and then when I read Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Cory Booker on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-04): mention
“…if you really read Adam Smith, in his Moral Sentiments…”
Anthony Gill on EconTalk (2017-11-13): mention
“…only an economist who hasn't read Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments would think that a problem…”
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…than you might think just based on The Theory of Moral Sentiments.…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…It doesn't all come from The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…the whole first chapter of The Theory of Moral Sentiments is arguing that that's not quite right…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…the one I've really stressed a lot in The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…Smith is engaging with Hume throughout The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Ryan Holiday on EconTalk (2016-07-18): recommend
“…what I took the most from your book is that idea of the indifferent spectator…”
Ryan Holiday on EconTalk (2016-07-18): mention
“…I think Adam Smith talked about this so well in The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Otteson on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…So, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments he was developing this model of an interactive process…”
VSmith on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…I quite agree with Jim that The Theory of Moral Sentiments enriches very much the Wealth of Nations…”
VSmith on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…His first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, what we can understand from that is what contributes…”
Otteson on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…one of the amazing things about that book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
VSmith on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…there's a number of propositions in The Theory of Moral Sentiments that have really helped me…”
VSmith on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…several places within The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith points out that we are self-loving…”
Otteson on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…His first book, which really gave him the name both in the British Isles and on the Continent, was The Theory of Moral Sentiments.…”
Vernon Smith on EconTalk (2014-11-17): mention
“…The Theory of Moral Sentiments develops beautifully a theory of property rights…”
Vernon Smith on EconTalk (2014-11-17): mention
“…The Theory of Moral Sentiments is all about fellow-feeling…”
Munger on EconTalk (2014-10-13): mention
“…That's in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. So, I'm more worried about the prospect of losing my little finger…”
Russ Roberts and Michael Munger on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Munger on EconTalk (2014-10-13): mention
“…It may be that the Theory of Moral Sentiments is not even usually read any more…”
Russ Roberts and Michael Munger on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Yuval Levin on EconTalk (2014-05-26): mention
“…He read The Theory of Moral Sentiments as a fairly young man.…”
Diane Coyle on EconTalk (2014-04-28): mention
“…the kind of thing that Adam Smith wrote about in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, about the importance of relations…”
John Ralston Saul on EconTalk (2013-11-04): mention
“…How many of you have read The Theory of Moral Sentiments?…”
John Ralston Saul on Reason, Elites, and Voltaire's Bastards
Yanis Varoufakis on EconTalk (2013-02-25): mention
“…reading The Wealth of Nations without The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Yanis Varoufakis on Valve, Spontaneous Order, and the European Crisis