Download or read book The Afterlife of Adam Smith written by William Farina and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain once quipped that a "classic [is] something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." This definition fits Adam Smith's timeless work The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776 on the eve of the American Revolution. For more than two centuries, partisans and pundits across the political spectrum have selectively quoted (or purported to quote) Smith's masterpiece of economic theory in support of legislative agendas and public policy. Smith himself would have been surprised at the near universal acceptance of his theories, especially given changes in the world economy since the 18th century. This book provides a close reading of his work, revealing a complex intellect schooled in the high moral ideals of classical philosophy, yet firmly grounded in the pragmatism of international trade and commerce.
Download or read book The Afterlife of Adam Smith written by William Farina and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain once quipped that a "classic [is] something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." This definition fits Adam Smith's timeless work The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776 on the eve of the American Revolution. For more than two centuries, partisans and pundits across the political spectrum have selectively quoted (or purported to quote) Smith's masterpiece of economic theory in support of legislative agendas and public policy. Smith himself would have been surprised at the near universal acceptance of his theories, especially given changes in the world economy since the 18th century. This book provides a close reading of his work, revealing a complex intellect schooled in the high moral ideals of classical philosophy, yet firmly grounded in the pragmatism of international trade and commerce.
Download or read book A Letter to Adam Smith LL D on the Life Death updd Philosophy of His Friend David Hume Esq By One of the People Called Christians written by George Horne and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Letter to Adam Smith on the Life Death and Philosophy of His Friend David Hume written by George Horne and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Letter to Adam Smith on the Life Death and Philosophy of His Friend David Hume written by George Horne and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Adam Smith written by John Rae and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Adam Smith written by Ian Simpson Ross and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith's life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has recently come to light, this full-scale biography of Adam Smith examines the personality, career, and social and intellectual circumstances of the Scottish moral philosopher regarded as the founder of scientific economics, whose legacy of thought - most notably about the free market and the role of the state - concerns us all. Ian Simpson Ross draws on correspondence, archival documents, the reports of contemporaries, and the record of Smith's publications to fashion a lively account of Adam Smith as a man of letters, moralist, historian, and critic, as well as an economist. Supported with full scholarly apparatus for students and academics, the book also offers 20 halftone illustrations representing Smith and the world in which he lived.
Download or read book Adam Smith and the Death of David Hume written by Dennis C. Rasmussen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letter to Strahan is an ostensible letter that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David Hume, and published alongside Hume’s autobiography, My Own Life, in 1777. Other than his two books, it is the only work that Smith published under his name during his lifetime, and it elicited a great deal of commentary and controversy. Because of Hume’s reputation for impiety, Smith’s portrayal of his friend’s cheerfulness and equanimity during his final days provoked outrage among the devout. Smith later commented that this work “brought upon me ten times more abuse than the very violent attack I had made upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain”—meaning, of course, The Wealth of Nations. This is the first annotated version of this fascinating and important work. Along with the Letter to Strahan, the volume also includes Hume’s My Own Life, the work to which the Letter was a kind of companion piece; two personal letters related to the Letter; and three published responses to the Letter—two viciously critical and one generally favorable. A substantial editor’s introduction discusses the context, composition, publication, and significance of the Letter, along with the strong reaction that it provoked. Taken together, the works included in the volume provide an entertaining and accessible entrée into some of the most controversial debates over religion and morality in the eighteenth century.
Download or read book Life of Adam Smith written by Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Letter to Adam Smith LL D on the Life Death and Philosophy of His FriendDavid Hume Esq written by George Horne (Bishop of Norwich.) and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Letter to Adam Smith LL D written by George Horne and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adam Smith written by Nicholas Phillipson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist, and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. This book, by one of the leading scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, shows the extent to which The Wealth of Nations and Smith's other great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand 'Science of Man', one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, which was to encompass law, history and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Nicholas Phillipson reconstructs Smith's intellectual ancestry and formation, of which he gives a radically new and convincing account. He shows what Smith took from, and what he gave to, the rapidly changing and subtly different intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh as they entered the great years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all he explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialogue with those of his closest friend, the other titan of the age, David Hume. This superb biography is now the one book which anyone interested in the founder of economics must read.
Download or read book Life of Adam Smith written by John Rae and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith was born at Kirkcaldy, in the county of Fife, Scotland, on the 5th of June 1723. He was the son of Adam Smith, Writer to the Signet, Judge Advocate for Scotland and Comptroller of the Customs in the Kirkcaldy district, by Margaret, daughter of John Douglas of Strathendry, a considerable landed proprietor in the same county...
Download or read book Life of Dr Adam Smith written by William Draper and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Adam Smith Together with a View of His Doctrine Compared with that of the French Economists written by Adam Smith and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adam Smith and the Death of David Hume written by Dennis C. Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume centers on an annotated edition of a short, controversial work that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David Hume. It also includes several related texts as well as an extensive editor's introduction.
Download or read book The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith VI Correspondence written by Adam Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edition the missing part of one letter and eighteen entirely new ones are presented. The search for these letters even extended to Japan. Therefore, all new Smith letter discovered since 1977 are included. In addition, wherever errors were suspected or misreadings have come to light in the standing text as a result of advice from reviewers and correspondents, these have been corrected.
