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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... Scottish Enlightenment and intellectual history in a legendary Cambridge special subject which few who were lucky enough to have taken will ever forget. My own students and postgraduates may recognize various themes of this book which ...
... Scottish society at a remarkable moment in the history of his class and nation, a man who would be known to his contemporaries as solitary as well as sociable, and more than a touch eccentric, and a man who generated affection as well ...
... Scottish intelligentsia , his family belonged to the middling ranks of Scottish society . Both of his parents came from the minor gentry and had connections with the law , the army and the world of office - holding on which the routines ...
... Scottish politics . He was clearly an ambitious and up - and - coming man . In 1710 , Smith married Lilias Drummond ... Scots Parliament . Again it was a short marriage . Smith died in January 1723 , six months before the birth of his ...
Contents
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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 | |