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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Named Person: | Adam Smith; Adam Smith; Adam Smith; Adam Smith; Adam Smith; Adam Smith, Philosoph.; Adam Smith |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Knud Haakonssen |
ISBN: | 0521770599 0521779243 9780521770590 9780521779241 |
OCLC Number: | 60321422 |
Description: | xiv, 409 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Imagination : morals, science, arts / Charles L. Griswold, Jr. -- Adam Smith, belletrist / Mark Salber Phillips -- Adam Smith's theory of language / Marcelo Dascal -- Smith and science / Christopher J. Berry -- Smith on ingenuity, pleasure, and the imitative arts / Neil de Marchi -- Sympathy and the impartial spectator / Alexander Broadie -- Virtues, utility, and rules / Robert Shaver -- Adam Smith on justice, rights, and law / David Lieberman -- Self-interest and other interests / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Adam Smith and history / J.G.A. Pocock -- Adam Smith's politics / Douglas Long -- Adam Smith's economics / Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen -- The legacy of Adam Smith / Knud Haakonssen and Donald Winch. |
Series Title: | Cambridge companions to philosophy. |
Responsibility: | edited by Knud Haakonssen. |
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Abstract:
Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought.
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"Historian Haakonssen has assembled arguably the most wide-ranging perspective yet published on the social vision of Adam Smith." -- Choice
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