Essential Adam Smith

Author:

Smith, Adam, Heilbroner, Robert L., Malone, Lawrence J.

ISBN-13:

9780393955309

ISBN:

0393955303

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary: The sheer strength of his great work, The Wealth of Nations , discourages many from attempting to explore its rich and lucid arguments. In this brilliantly crafted volume, one of the most eminent economists of our day provides a generous selection from the entire body of Smith's work, ranging from his fascinating psychological observations on human nature to his famous treatise on what Smith called a "society of natu...ral liberty," The Wealth of Nations .Among the works represented in this volume in addition to The Wealth of Nations are The History of Astronomy, Lectures on Jurisprudence , The Theory of Moral Sentiments , and Smith's correspondence with David Hume.Before each of Smith's writings Robert Heilbroner presents a clear and lively discussion that will interest the scholar as much as it will clarify the work for the non-specialist. Adam Smith emerges from this collection of his writings, as he does from his portrait in Professor Heilbroner's well-known book, as the first economist to deserve the title of "worldly philosopher." [read more]

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