Adam Smith

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Author :Jesse Norman(Author)

Category :Politics

Desc :English General Reading

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books Ltd 2019 , Language ‏ : ‎ English, Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0141987118

Summary

The recent book by Jesse Norman simply entitled “Adam Smith”is a pleasure to read. There are of course innumerable books on the founder of the political economy, so why another one? Norman’s book is directed toward that, at times elusive, general educated reader, and has, in my opinion, three objectives: (i) to situate Adam Smith in his time, both intellectually and politically, (ii) to argue that there is a remarkable consistency between the Adam Smith of the Theory of Moral Sentiments, Lectures on Jurisprudence and the Wealth of Nations, and (iii) to show that most of neoclassical and laissez-faire appropriations of Adam Smith are at best one-sided, and in many cases downright wrong.