Summary
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 - such as the ‘Invisible Hand’ of the market - 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140287288 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140287280 |
| Author: | Nicholas Phillipson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 5 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
Phillipson has produced a remarkable and often brilliant intellectual biography … stuffed with acute philosophical observations … [His] exposition of Smith’s “enlightened life” could scarcely be bettered – Oliver Kamm * The Times *
About The Author
Nicholas Phillipson
Nicholas Phillipson is Honorary Research Fellow in History at Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1965. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Yale, Tulsa, the Folger Library, Washington DC and the Ludwigs-Maximilian Universitat, Munich. He is co-director of a three-year Leverhulme-funded project on the Science of Man in Scotland. He was an associate editor of the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a founder editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History, published by the Cambridge University Press, and is a past president of the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society.
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