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LEONIDAS MONTES L. Ingeniero Civil Industrial, Licenciado en Filosofa, Magster en Ciencia Poltica (Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile); MPhil, Ph.D. en
Economa (Kings College, Universidad de Cambridge). Profesor de economa en la
Universidad Adolfo Ibez y miembro del Consejo Directivo del Centro de Estudios
Pblicos.
* On Adam Smiths Newtonianism and General Economic Equilibrium
Theory, publicado en L. Montes y E. Schliesser (ed.), New Voices on Adam Smith
(Londres: Routledge, 2006). Traduccin de Estudios Pblicos. Publicado en esta edicin
con la debida autorizacin.
Para las abreviaciones y referencias de las obras de Adam Smith, vase seccin
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Estudios Pblicos, 104 (primavera 2006).
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el trmino gravitacin implicaba en realidad un fenmeno distinto. En
verdad el uso que Smith hace del trmino gravitacin en funcin de los
precios emula la tercera ley de Newton de accin y reaccin: a cada accin
corresponde siempre una reaccin igual y contraria, pero entre ambos se
observan importantes diferencias. Para Newton la accin y la reaccin son
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