James P. Henderson

Adam Smith's Influence on Hegel's Philosophical Writings

Historians of economics and philosophy have noted Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegels debt to Adam Smith and have suggested that Hegels analysis of civil society rests on a Smithian foundation. Laurence Dickey recognized that “Hegels interest in the Scots coincided with the late eighteenth-century German interest in the relationship between socioeconomic processes in history and the development of civil institutions” (Dickey 1987, p. 194). Georg Lukacs emphasized that “it is highly probable that the study of Adam Smith was a turning-point in Hegels evolution” (Lukacs 1976, p. 172). In his study of The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx , Ernest Mandel maintained that Marx discovered political economy and its importance to philosophy in his reading of Hegel. Says Mandel:

Equal Pay vs. Equal Job Opportunity for Women: The Debate in Great Britain from 1891 to 1923

Examines the debate (1891‐1923) concerning whether women should receive equal pay for equal work and whether they should have equal employment opportunities. Addresses the issues surrounding equal employment opportunities for women, whether women′s work performance was equal to that of men, the question of equal pay and, finally, the debate over equal pay vs equal job opportunity.