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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... interest of the grandly named and aristocratic The Honourable the Society for Improvement in the Knowledge of Agriculture ( 1723 - c.45 ) and the patronage of the Board of Trustees for Fisheries and Manufactures , an eighteenth - century.
... interest in economic improvement , it seems certain that Oswald and his family played a significant part in engineering the town's economic recovery . He was a close friend of Smith's father and was named Adam Smith's tutor , or legal ...
... 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 regions of a commercial state . A small town was ' a continual fair or ...
... interests with those of the public . They taught them how to understand and enjoy the peace of mind and sense of self ... interest Smith for the rest of his life . If Miller really did introduce him to these classics , he must go down as ...
... interest in experimental science and letters and in the future of the Scottish universities . In 1726 he arranged a Visitation to overhaul the the university's constitution and curriculum . New chairs in Logic and Metaphysics , in Moral ...
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 | |