Adam Smith and human resources: The moral challenges of modern society, by Daniel B. Klein

Key Points

• Adam Smith helps with moral challenges, especially in work and employment. He inspires the individual to make a useful and satisfying place for himself in society by contributing.
• The crucial competence is in sympathy. Sympathetic deftness might be thought of as social intelligence. Employers are wise to look for it. Workers with sympathetic deftness are more productive. Sympathetic deftness is win-win-win.
• We have seen three seats of sympathy: sympathy with familiars, those we live with; sympathy with unfamiliars, which calls forth common decency and civility; and sympathy with the man within the breast, or soul sympathy.....

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