The Wealth of Nations
$23.55
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
14 November 1993
Summary
This thoughtful new abridgment is enriched by the brilliant commentary which accompanies it. In it, Laurence Dickey argues that the Wealth of Nations contains–and conceals–a great deal of how Smith actually thought a commercial society works. Guided by his conviction that the so-called Adam Smith Problem–the relationship between ethics and economics in Smith’s thinking–is a core element in the argument of the work itself, Dickey’s commentary focuses on the devices Smith uses to grou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780872202047 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0872202046 |
| Author: | Adam Smith, Laurence Dickey |
| Publisher: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Imprint: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 1993 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 215mm |
| Series: | Hackett Classics |
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Critics Review
Has all the basic chapters for the illustration of all the various (and contradictory) points anyone might want to make about the text. Dickey’s own texts are invaluable. The introductions to the chapters are essential to make clear to students where they fit in the overall argument of the book. The appendices, though clearly the expression of the author’s own views about the text, are admirably objective in the treatment of competing views, and represent an important contribution to Smith scholarship. –J. W. Smit, Columbia University
Adam Smith
Adam Smith was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1723. He entered the University of Glasgow at age fourteen, and later attended Balliol College at Oxford. After lecturing for a period, he held several teaching positions at Glasgow University. His greatest achievement was writing The Wealth of Nations (1776), a five-book series that sought to expose the true causes of prosperity, and installed him as the father of contemporary economic thought. He died in Edinburgh on July 19, 1790. Laurence Dickey is Professor of History, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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