Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment - Istvan Hont - Hardcover

Wealth and Virtue reassesses the Scottish Enlightenment's contribution to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement of the eighteenth century and explores the process by which the boundaries between economic thought, jurisprudence, moral philosophy and theoretical history were established.Hont, Istvan is the author of 'Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment - Istvan Hont - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780521233972 and ISBN 0521233976.