Adam Smith

This splendid book not only presents an excellent introduction to the life and ideas of Adam Smith, but also explains why - and how - Smith’s insights can help us solve some of the most difficult social and economic problems of the contemporary world. Smith loved lucidity and relevance, and I think he would have been very happy with Norman’s book. – Amartya SenMasterly … amid the superficiality and hysterics of modern British politics, an admirably thoughtful brain is lurking – Edward Lucas * The Times *An important work of revisionist biography with a direct and important impact on the intellectual underpinnings of liberal free-market thought – Oliver Letwin * Telegraph *Superb … Norman succeeds in demonstrating the coherence and subtlety of Adam Smith’s thought – Martin Wolf * Financial Times (Books of the Year) *A remarkable and intensely readable book … a rejoinder to those who fear that the intellectual has disappeared from politics – John Kay * Financial Times *This book is well-written, well-argued and intensely thought-provoking, and it will rightly raise Smith’s posthumous reputation – Simon Heffer * Spectator *

Jesse Norman is the Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire. He read classics at Oxford and completed a masters and a doctorate in Philosophy from University College London. Before entering politics, he ran an educational project working in Communist Eastern Europe, and was a director at Barclays. He has been an Honorary Fellow at UCL, a Governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. His previous books include a celebrated study of Edmund Burke.

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