Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society - Softcover

Muller, Jerry Z.

 
9780691001616: Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691001618 ISBN 13: 9780691001616
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1995

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Counter to the popular impression that Adam Smith was a champion of selfishness and greed, Jerry Muller shows that the Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations maintained that markets served to promote the well-being of the populace and that government must intervene to counteract the negative effects of the pursuit of self-interest. Smith's analysis went beyond economics to embrace a larger "civilizing project" designed to create a more decent society.

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Jerry Z. Muller

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"Jerry Muller has written an extraordinarily good book on the most quoted and least read of the worldly philosophers."--Robert Heilbroner, Author of The Worldly Philosophers

"A good work of intellectual history should exemplify two qualities above all: an imagination that allows the author to 'pass over' into the horizon of his subject in order to see the world as the subject sees it; and a sympathy such as to gain a feel for the world of the subject. . . . Like Adam Smith, his subject, intellectual historian Jerry Muller exemplifies these traits to an exceptional degree."--Michael Novak, First Things

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691001618
ISBN 13 
9780691001616
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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