Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

by Ryan Patrick Hanley

Book Overview

Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's founding father, to recover his understanding of the morals of the market age. In so doing it illuminates a crucial albeit overlooked side of Smith's project: his diagnosis of the ethical ills of commercial societies and the remedy he advanced to cure them...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521188237
• ISBN13: 9780521188234
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"