Adam Smith's Politics: An Essay in Historiographic Revision

by Donald Winch

Book Overview

For most of the two hundred years or so that have passed since the publication of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith's writings on political and economic questions have been viewed within a liberal capitalist perspective of nineteenth- and twentieth- century provenance. This essay in interpretation seeks to provide a more historical reading of certain political themes which recur in Smith's writings by bringing eighteenth-century perspectives to bear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521292883
• ISBN13: 9780521292887
• Release Date: July 1978
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"