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This book, by one of the leading scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, shows the extent to which The Wealth of Nations and Smith's other great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand ...
Refutes modern misconceptions about the eighteenth-century business philosopher's influence to argue that his theories about unregulated business and small government as depicted in such landmark publications as An Inquiry into the Nature ...
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Adam Smith was a famous economist and moral philosopher. This book treats Smith also as a systematic philosopher with a distinct epistemology, an original theory of the passions, and a surprising philosophy mind.