Adam Smith's Discourse: Canonicity, Commerce and Conscience

by Vivienne Brown

Book Overview

Adam Smith's name has become synonymous with free market economics; The Wealth of Nations is taken as the definitive account of the benefits of free competitive markets. Yet recent scholarship has challenged this view and given us a richer, more nuanced figure, steeped in the intricacies of enlightenment social and political philosophy. Adam Smith's Discourse both develops this literature and gives it a radical new extension by taking into account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B008XZYTJC
• ISBN13: 9780415095938
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary