The Life of Adam Smith

by Ian Simpson Ross

Book Overview

Few would argue that Adam Smith was one of the great minds of the eighteenth century. He is perceived through his best-known book, The Wealth of Nations, as the founder of economics as a science, and his ideas about the free market and the role of the state (in relation to it) continue to influence modern economic thought. Yet Smith achieved even more as a man of letters, as a moralist, historian, and critic.
The Life of Adam Smith, the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198288212
• ISBN13: 9780198288213
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"