No other book is as closely identified in the public mind with capitalism and free markets as Adam Smith's classic, Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Published in 1776, The Wealth of Nations - with its imagery of an "invisible hand" at work moving mark…
Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass law, history, and aesthet…
Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass law, history, and aesthet…
