Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

By Nicholas Phillipson

Book Overview

Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. This book 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 "Science of Man," one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, which was to encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics, and which was only half complete on Smith's death in 1790.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300177674
• ISBN13: 9780300177671
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.9"