|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910457342403321 |
|
|
Autore |
McLean Iain |
|
|
Titolo |
Adam Smith, radical and egalitarian [[electronic resource] ] : an interpretation for the twenty-first century / / Iain McLean |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2006 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
0-7486-7211-7 |
1-280-53844-9 |
9786610538447 |
0-7486-2705-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (193 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Economics - Philosophy |
Enlightenment - Scotland |
Electronic books. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-165) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
COVER; Contents; Foreword by Rt Hon. Gordon Brown; A Note on Citations; Preface: A Scotsman Looks at the World; 1 The Life of an Absent-minded Professor; 2 A Weak State and a Weak Church; 3 A Non-religious Grounding of Morals: Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment; 4 Merriment and Diversion: Smith on Public Finance and Public Choice; 5 The Invisible Hand and the Helping Hand; 6 The French and American Smiths; 7 Adam Smith Today; Appendix; Notes on Further Reading; References; Index; |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
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 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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|