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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... John Slezer , Theatrum Scotiae ( 1693 ) . ( Hunterian Art Gallery , University of Glasgow ) 5. Balliol College , Oxford , from D. Loggan , Oxonia Illustrata ( 1765 ) . ( Private collection / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library ) 6 ...
... John Dean Paul. (Bonhams, London/The Bridgeman Art Library) 24. Elevation of the British Coffee House, by Robert Adam. (Private collection/The Bridgeman Art Library) 25. View from the Walk on the top of Calton Hill, by Mary Elton ...
... 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 origin and progress of ...
... John Pocock and Istvan Hont . My debts to them are not easily repaid . Various sections of this book have been discussed at conferences , colloquia and seminars in Edinburgh , Glasgow and St Andrews , at Oxford , Cambridge , London and ...
... John's St Episcopal Royal Chapel Surgeons Hall Infirmary Calton Hill EDINBURGH , c . 1776 2 David Hume's. SEE BELOW 1 Andrew's Square Royal Exchange- and Customs House North Bridge EDINBURGH , c . 1776 1/4 mile Panmure House Lawnmarket ...
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 | |