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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An Enlightened Life Nicholas Phillipson. Adam Smith An Enlightened Life NICHOLAS PHILLIPSON KAY 1790 The Author of the Wealth of Nations. Front Cover.
An Enlightened Life Nicholas Phillipson. KAY 1790 The Author of the Wealth of Nations NICHOLAS PHILLIPSON Adam Smith An Enlightened Life.
... Wealth of Nations 1766-76 11. The Wealth of Nations and Smith's ' Very violent attack ... upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain ' 12. Hume's Death 13. Last Years in Edinburgh 1778-90 Epilogue Notes and Sources Bibliography ...
... Wealth of Nations ' , by John Kay , from A Series of Original Portraits and Character Etchings ( Edinburgh 1842 ) . ( Edinburgh University Library ) page 91 : Notes of Dr. Smith's Rhetorick Lectures [ 1762-3 ] . Lecture 3 ' Of the ...
... Wealth of Nations, and it was they who helped me to understand why Smith preferred the first book to the second. In planning this book I wanted to write about Smith's life and works in a way which would throw light on the development of ...
Contents
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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 | |