LEADER 02615nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910457342403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7486-7211-7 010 $a1-280-53844-9 010 $a9786610538447 010 $a0-7486-2705-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000351128 035 $a(EBL)267207 035 $a(OCoLC)123894064 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000097077 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11121640 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000097077 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10112096 035 $a(PQKB)10647066 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092670 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC267207 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL267207 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10131980 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53844 035 $a(OCoLC)860306866 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000351128 100 $a20060223d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAdam Smith, radical and egalitarian$b[electronic resource] $ean interpretation for the twenty-first century /$fIain McLean 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-2352-3 320 $aincludes bibliographical references (p. [158]-165) and index. 327 $aCOVER; 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; 330 $aAims 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. 606 $aEconomics$xPhilosophy 606 $aEnlightenment$zScotland 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomics$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEnlightenment 676 $a330.153092 700 $aMcLean$b Iain$0254484 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457342403321 996 $aAdam Smith, radical and egalitarian$92046486 997 $aUNINA