Human Documents of Adam Smith's Time

by E. Royston Pike

Book Overview

First published in 1974, this is not a 'life' of the founder of the science of economics, although it opens with a biographical sketch; nor is it an analysis of The Wealth of Nations, although it contains numerous pointed quotations from it. Rather, it is a presentation of Adam Smith against his background of time and place, eighteenth century Britain on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.

The first chapter consists of 'documents' illustrating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138865443
• ISBN13: 9781138865440
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"