Adam Smith in His Time and Ours Designing the Decent Society

Summary: "Jerry Muller has written an extraordinarily good book on the most quoted and least read of the worldly philosophers."--Robert Heilbroner, Author ofThe Worldly Philosophers "A good work of intellectual history should exemplify two qualities above all: animaginationthat allows the author to 'pass over' into the horizon of his subject in order to see the world as the subject sees it; and asympathysuch as to gain a feel... for the world of the subject. . . . Like Adam Smith, his subject, intellectual historian Jerry Muller exemplifies these traits to an exceptional degree."--Michael Novak,First Things [read more]