Adam Smith: An Enlightened LifeAdam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. 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 book, by one of the leading scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, shows the extent to which The Wealth of Nations and Smith's other great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand 'Science of Man', one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, which was to encompass law, history and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. |
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... Oswald was new to district . He bought Dunnikier in 1703 , built himself the house he needed to acquire burgess rights and to hold office in the town , and had himself elected Provost in 1717. He was now the largest landed proprietor in ...
... Oswald's son , another James Oswald , was eight years older than Smith and became one of his closest friends . This James Oswald was a remarkable man . Like Smith , he lost his father as a child and like him was bought up by a ...
... Oswald had played a decisive part in persuading Smith to develop his interests in political economy . 14 In the Wealth of Nations , Smith was to pay close attention to the role of small towns in shaping the commerce and culture of the ...
... Oswald must surely have had something to do with it; after all, she had her son James to educate and a family position in the burgh to keep up. Perhaps she put pressure on the town council to increase his salary, more probably she ...
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Contents
1695 | |
1699 | |
1709 | |
1719 | |
1741 | |
Oxford and David Hume | |
Edinburghs Early Enlightenment | |
a Conjectural History | |
Smith and the Duke of Buccleuch in Europe 17646 | |
London Kirkcaldy and the Making of the Wealth of Nations 176676 | |
The Wealth of Nations and Smiths Very violent attack upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain | |
Humes Death | |
Last Years in Edinburgh 177890 | |
Epilogue | |
Notes and Sources | |
Bibliography of Works Cited | |
Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow 1 17519 | |
The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Civilizing Powers of Commerce | |
Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow 2 175963 | |
Index | |