An Analysis of Adam Smith's Institutionalism in the Methodology of Social Science
Under the traditional research's inherent cognition of Smith's anarchism,liberalism,human self-interest and nightwatchman government theory,Adam.Smith's methodology is doggedly regarded as an absolutely individualistic posi-tion.Revealing the veil of Smith's"methodology of absolute individualism",the"liberalism"or"economic freedom"in the context of Smith refers to the freedom contained in the order norm rather than the absolute freedom free from legal regulation and institutional norm.Smith's methodology system is a balanced methodology which is formed on the basis of individualism methodology and supplemented by the harmonization of institutionalism.The lim-its of individual freedom are also bounded by legal norms,constitutional stan-dards and moral and ethical constraints.Individual freedom in the context of institution is the methodological position of individualism in Smit's context.The proper restraint mechanism with institutionalized norms is the prerequisite for the stability of social order,economic order and ethical order.In this way,the rights in the sense of individual will be protected.
Adam SmithinstitutionalismindividualismScottish enlightenment phi-losophy
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