Adam Smith : an enlightened life /
Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass law, history, and aestheti...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2010]
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| Summary: | Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Phillipson explains Adam Smith's part in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh at the time of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all Phillipson explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialog with his closest friend David Hume. --Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300169270 (alk. paper) 0300169272 (alk. paper) |