Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy
In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political economy and his lectures on Jurisprudence. The book provides a new analysis of Wealth of Nations , and argues that Adam Smith's intellectual legacy was completely trans...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2005, 2005
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political economy and his lectures on Jurisprudence. The book provides a new analysis of Wealth of Nations , and argues that Adam Smith's intellectual legacy was completely transformed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries by economists pursuing different agendas, to create ideas and policies that Smith did not advocate. It also provides a new explanation for the main mysteries about Smith's later life |
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| Physical Description: | XVI, 285 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230511194 |