Self-interest and Social Order

In this series of eleven essays, George H. Smith looks at the concepts of self-interest and social order with a particular view to dispel the criticism of individualism as being atomistic, that it based on psychological egoism. All are at Libertarianism.org. All of of this material except the first article is included in Smith's book, Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism (Cato 2017)

1. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Shaftesbury (2014) 
2. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Political Philosophy and Justice (2014)
3. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: David Hume (2014)
4. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: David Hume on Justice (2014)
5. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Thomas Hobbes (2014)
6. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: The Selfish System (2014)
7. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Joseph Butler (2014)
8. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Joseph Butler, Continued (2014)
9. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Bernard Mandeville (2015)
10. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Mandeville on the Benefits of Vice (2015)
11. Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: Bernard Mandeville v. Francis Hutcheson (2015)