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Alle Exemplare der Ausgabe mit dieser ISBN anzeigen:Adam 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.
Nicholas Phillipson reconstructs Smith's intellectual ancestry and formation, of which he gives a radically new and convincing account. He shows what Smith took from, and what he gave to, the rapidly changing and subtly different intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh as they entered the great years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all he explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialogue with those of his closest friend, the other titan of the age, David Hume. This superb biography is now the one book which anyone interested in the founder of economics must read.
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Buchbeschreibung Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Artikel-Nr. GOR011159308
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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Fine. 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. xx+346pp, 16pp colour plates, 3 b/w maps, index, a fine copy in a very slightly edge rubbed dustjacket. A biography of Adam Smith [ 1723 - 1790 ] Scottish economist, philosopher, a pioneer of political economy, and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Known as 'The Father of Economics'. 675 grams. Artikel-Nr. 55198
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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Used - Good. 2009. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j., in an acetate cover. Some shelf-wear. Scattered underlining and annotations throughout. A good reading copy. Good. Artikel-Nr. SON000017212
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