A Companion to Adam Smith - Softcover

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More than two centuries after his death, Adam Smith is still justly regarded as the single most towering figure in the history of modern economics. His celebrated work on The Wealth of Nations captured the spirit of industrial capitalism, and presented its theoretical rationale in a form which dominated the thinking of the most influential political economists of the nineteenth century and continues to inspire free-market advocates to this day. Smith, however, was not merely (or even primarily) an economist, and the sheer catholicity of his interests, embracing not only economics, ethics, political philosophy, and jurisprudence but also literature (ancient and modern), linguistics, psychology, and the history of science, must seem staggering to the modern specialist, but no less staggering is the analytical depth he applied to all his studies. The twelve chapters included in this volume are reflective of the wide range of interests that our subject was concerned with during his lifetime. A Companion to Adam Smith will not only provide guidance to nonspecialist readers coming to Smith for the first time and seeking introductions to his key ideas but will also interest more advanced scholars as well. Though some of the essays are somewhat polemical, they all provide balanced coverage of the current literature in Smithian studies and show how Adam Smith’s insights continue to illuminate contemporary concerns. — Julio H. Cole, from the Introduction

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