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Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

Phillipson, Nicholas

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Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

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ISBN10: 0300177674
ISBN13: 9780300177671
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jan 10 2012
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.38 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

This fascinating intellectual biography of Adam Smith dramatically rewrites the economist's life and offers new insight into his iconic concepts

The great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (1723-90) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. This biography shows the extent to which Smith's great works, The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of one of the most ambitious projects of the Euruopean Enlightenment, a grand Science of Man that would encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics, and which was only half complete on Smith's death in 1790.

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