The Life of Adam Smith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith's life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has recently come to light, this full-scale biography of Adam Smith examines the personality, career, and social and intellectual circumstances of the Scottish moral philosopher regarded as the founder of scientific economics, whose legacy of thought - most notably about the free market and the role of the state - concerns us all. Ian Simpson Ross draws on correspondence, archival documents, the reports of contemporaries, and the record of Smith's publications to fashion a lively account of Adam Smith as a man of letters, moralist, historian, and critic, as well as an economist. Supported with full scholarly apparatus for students and academics, the book also offers 20 halftone illustrations representing Smith and the world in which he lived.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-09-23
Mått162 x 235 x 37 mm
Vikt1 054 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor624
Upplaga2
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199550036

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1. Kirkcaldy ; 2. Boyhood ; 3. Glasgow ; 4. The Never to be Forgotten Hutcheson ; 5. Oxford ; 6. A Respectable Auditory ; 7. Lectures on the History of Philosophy and Law ; 8. Called to Glasgow University ; 9. Teacher ; 10. Publishing Scholar and Administrator ; 11. The Making of the Theory of Moral Sentiments ; 12. Criticism of the Theory of Moral Sentiments ; 13. Travelling Tutor ; 14. Transition ; 15. Inquirer into the Wealth of Nations ; 16. The American Crisis and the Wealth of Nations ; 17. Euge! Belle! Dear Mr Smith ; 18. Dialogue with a Dying Man ; 19. Settlement in Edinburgh ; 20. Economic Theorist as Commissioner of Customs ; 21. Literary Pursuits ; 22. Times of Hardship and Distress ; 23. Legacy for Legislators ; 24. The Precariousness of this Life ; 25. The Great Change ; Bibliography

What makes the second edition of The Life of Adam Smith remarkable is that it strives to be two things simultaneously. First, it remains an intellectual biography, following Smith's life year by year and connecting published observations to actual events...The second aim of the book is to absorb the new scholarship into Ross's old narrative...This intellectual biography is as much intellectual as it is biography; it is built on textual scholarship as well as historical narrative.