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Adam Smith explained in "The Wealth of Nations" that humans, and humans alone, are endowed with "a propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another".
Phillipson argues that, having established sociability in The Theory, Smith had no need to take commercial society back to its root in The Wealth of Nations, but could content himself with a sort of shorthand (the non-benevolent butcher, brewer and baker; truck, barter and exchange one thing for another; invisible hand).
7 My reading of Adam Smith makes me agree with Vernon Smith's summary: the "propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another" is the core of Smith's view of human nature in both books.
He made the idea central to his discussion of social cooperation, arguing that the division of labour did not arise from human wisdom but was the "necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility: the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another".
For instance, Smith argues that the division of labor is the spontaneous outcome of the human "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another" (14).
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