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Hume is a philosopher who did research on especially the areas of religion, morals and politics besides the nature, science, history, philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology/logic, economics, sociology, psychology, ethics and aesthetics and so on. Despite the wide range of his study areas, when looking at the studies on Hume in general, it can be seen that the studies in our country are mostly on religion and epistemology, and partly on morals. The philosopher’s studies on politics and economics haven't been laid enough stress on and haven't received real interest. However, it can’t have been thought that a philosopher living in England in the century of trade and having a relationship with A. Smith didn’t improve notions on economics. In this article, Hume’s understanding of political economics related with morals and politics, who can be called the first modern economist, is dealt with in relation to study of human understanding, his nature and desires. His political economics is discussed in the context of his works and his understanding of political economics is tried to be presented by means of the concepts of benefit-value, interest, attitutes and promise. It has been determined that he contributed to form today’s profane, rationalistic, secular, immoral and capitalist mechanical world by establishing anthropocentric moral sentiment.

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