
Originally Posted by
idolatrie
I'm not sure I agree that the subject matter was necessarily Te/Ni. Smith was writing in a complete void of 'economic literature' since he, in many regards, established the field. So he was writing as a moral philosopher, because political economy did not exist as a discipline until he took it up. I think his particular approach demonstrates Te, rather than reflecting the Te nature of the subject. For example, I don't think Marx took a Te approach, and he was arguably also a Classical economist, and the neoclassical approach is certainly not Te driven (I would argue that it is Ti + Ne).