| Description |
1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Contents |
Reading Adam Smith's discourse -- Signifying voices: reading the Adam Smith problem -- Dialogic experience of conscience -- TMS and the Stoic moral hierarchy -- Justice and jurisprudence -- Emergence of The wealth of nations -- System of natural liberty -- Conclusion: commerce and conscience |
| Summary |
Adam Smith's name has become synonymous with free market economics; The Wealth of Nations is taken as the definitive account of the benefits of free competitive markets. Yet recent scholarship has challenged this view and given us a richer, more nuanced figure, steeped in the intricacies of enlightenment social and political philosophy. Adam Smith's Discourse both develops this literature and gives it a radical new extension by taking into account recent debates in literary theory |
| Analysis |
Philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
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| SUBJECT |
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 fast |
| Subject |
Economists -- Scotland
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Economists
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Economia politica (teoria e filosofia)
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Scotland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203014863 |
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9780203014868 |
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9780415095938 |
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041509593X |
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9780415081603 |
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0415081602 |
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9786610373956 |
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6610373957 |
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