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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777383503321

Autore

Brown Vivienne

Titolo

Adam Smith's discourse : canonicity, commerce, and conscience / / Vivienne Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-86544-9

1-134-86545-7

9786610373956

1-280-37395-4

0-203-01486-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages)

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Economists - Scotland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reading Adam Smith's discourse -- Signifying voices: reading the Adam Smith problem -- Dialogic experience of conscience -- TMS and the Stoic moral hierarchy -- Justice and jurisprudence -- Emergence of The wealth of nations -- System of natural liberty -- Conclusion: commerce and conscience.

Sommario/riassunto

This book develops the existing analyses of the founder of free market economics, and gives it a radical new extension by taking into account recent debates in literary theory.