Adam Smith

  • Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety
    By Stephen J. McKenna

    the Glasgow Edition's general editor,Andrew Skinner,“It is hoped that the most complete edition of Smith's works will facilitate perception of the fact that individually they form the parts of a single whole which embraces theories of ...

  • Adam Smith: Essays on Adam Smith’S Original Contributions to Economic Thought and the Parallels with the Economic Thought of John...
    By MICHAEL EMMETT BRADY

    is no support for any of Davidson's claims because Keynes is using his analysis from the TP,in general, and in Part V of the TP specifically. Davidson is simply putting his own theory into Keynes's mouth. There is not a shred of textual ...

  • Adam Smith
    By Craig Smith

    Thus, for Smith, a savage becomes inured to hardship and his behaviour becomes shaped by his circumstances. As he puts it: 'His circumstances not only habituate him to every sort of distress, but teach him to give way to none of the ...

  • Adam Smith: Father of Economics
    By Jesse Norman

    Banknotes: in 2016 it was announced that Smith's image would be succeeded on the £20 note by that of J. M. W. Turner Mrs Thatcher on influence of Smith: Speech to Scottish Conservative Conference, City Hall, Perth, 13 May 1988.

  • Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
    By Nicholas Phillipson

    In April 1759, Hume had reported that Charles Townshend, the young Duke of Buccleuch's stepfather and guardian, 'is so taken with the Performance, that he said to Oswald he wou'd put the Duke of Buccleugh under the Authors Care, ...

  • Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
    By Nicholas Phillipson

    This superb biography is now the one book which anyone interested in the founder of economics must read.

  • Adam Smith: Essays on Adam Smith: Adam Smith and the Alleged French Connection
    By MICHAEL EMMETT BRADY

    Essays on Adam Smith: Adam Smith and the Alleged French Connection Michael Emmett Brady ... macroscopically, stable equilibrium is obtained over time; (b) Smith believed in Laissez faire; (c) Smith believed in a 100 % Free Trade policy ...

  • Adam Smith
    By James R. Otteson

    Smith, having died shortly before he was born. In his 1793 Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, LL.D., Smith's student Dugald Stewart reports that Smith's “constitution during infancy was infirm and sickly, and required all ...

  • Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker
    By Eric Schliesser

    Rasmussen, Dennis C. “Does 'Bettering Our Condition' Really Make Us Better Off? Adam Smith on Progress and Happiness.” American Political Science Review 100.03 (2006): 309–18. Rasmussen, Dennis C. “Adam Smith and Rousseau: ...

  • Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction
    By Christopher J. Berry

    HOBBES Richard Tuck HOLLYWOOD Peter Decherney THE HOLY ROMAAN ENAPI RE Joachim Whaley HOMAE Michael Allen Fox HORMAONES Martin Luck HUMAN ANATOMAY Leslie Klenerman HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham HUMANISMA ...

  • Adam Smith: Essays on Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and their Interval Valued Approaches to Probability, Decision Making, and Uncertainty
    By MICHAEL EMMETT BRADY

    One need only peruse the badly analyzed work of Smith in this area, as presented by Henry D. MacLeod in his The Elements of Political Economy, on pages 212220, or Henry Sidgwicks The Principles of Political Economy, on pages 359361, as well ...

  • Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker
    By Eric Schliesser

    Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment. Unique among treatments of Adam Smith, Schliesser's book treats him as a systematic philosopher.

  • Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy
    By Ryan Patrick Hanley

    In contrast, Smith argues for a warranted resentment that feminists can more readily embrace as pertinent to forming solidarity and achieving social and political reform. In her essay, “Sympathy and Solidarity,” Bartky begins by asking ...

  • Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
    By Nicholas T. Phillipson

    Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist.

  • Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction
    By Christopher J. Berry

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  • Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why It Matters
    By Jesse Norman

    But this book is not only a biography. It dispels the myths and debunks the caricatures that have grown up around Adam Smith.

  • Adam Smith
    By R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner

    Although written by two of the world's foremost authorities on Adam Smith, the book is intended as an accessible study of a great thinker and philosopher which will help to introduce the reader to both his ideas and his period.

  • Adam Smith: Critical Assessments
    By John Cunningham Wood

    The first series of Smith "Critical Assessments" included major articles on Adam Smith and set a new standard for Smith scholarship.

  • Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy
    By Ryan Patrick Hanley

    The essential guide to the life, thought, and legacy of Adam Smith Adam Smith (1723–90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism.

  • Adam Smith
    By Jonathan Conlin

    All the volumes in the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith are available in inexpensive ... improvement will find Brian Bonnyman's The Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith (Edinburgh, 2014) of interest, ...