Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life

by Ryan Patrick Hanley

Book Overview

Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economics

Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life. Our Great Purpose is a short and illuminating guide to Smith's incomparable wisdom on how to live well, written by one of today's leading Smith scholars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691179441
• ISBN13: 9780691179445
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.1"