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Adam Smith's Economics : Its Place in the Development of Economic Thought

By Maurice Brown

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2010
ISBN
9781135174958, 9780415562010
LCC
HB103.S6 B76 2013
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2938787 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: Adam Smith Ser.
Pages
202\202
Time added
2023-08-05 08:09:00
-- 1723-1790. ; Economics -- Methodology -- HistorAdamSmith

Description

The conventional received opinion of Adam Smith as an isolated figure, the founder of 'modern' economics, is thoroughly mistaken and misleading. This is the central premise of this book, first published in 1988, in which the author argues that by placing Smith's work in its historical context, we discover profound continuities between Smith's work and that of his predecessors, and his contemporaries. The effect is to re-orientate our perception of Smith and his achievement. No longer the single-handed champion of free markets and competition whose work revolutionised and completely redirected economics. He appears instead as a brilliant contributor to a deep-rooted contemporary debate, someone who can be placed in a line of thinkers that stretches between Machiavelli and Kant.

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