Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

Nicholas Phillipson

368 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography economics philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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The great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (1723–90) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that the ideas for which...

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