Adam Smith
An Interpretation For The Twenty-First Century
Iain McLean
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Product Details
ISBN: 9780748623525
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: 25 July 2006
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Pages: 172 p.
About the Book
This book aims to show that Adam Smith (1723-90), the author of "The Wealth of Nations", was not the promoter of ruthless laissez-faire capitalism that is still frequently depicted. Smith's "right-wing" reputation was sealed after his death when it was not safe to claim that an author may have influenced the French revolutionaries. But, as the author, also, of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", which he probably regarded as his more important book, Smith sought a non-religious grounding for morals, and found it in the principle of sympathy, which should lead an impartial spectator to understand others' problems.
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