The Wisdom of Adam Smith

by John Haggarty, Benjamin A. Rogge (Editor)

Overview

Adam Smith was an eloquent man of considerable philosophical and historical learning. His most incisive and enduring observations are collected here on subjects ranging from political and economic history to morals, art, education, war, and the American colonies. Throughout, notes an admirer in the introduction, “his writing is blessedly free of that use of jargon (and mathematics) that characterizes most of the modern materials in economics. His ideas are expressed in a lucid, straightforward manner that makes them accessible to all.”

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614871439
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/01/1977
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	234
File size:	262 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction 9
Selector’s Note 13 1. Education 15
2. Art and Aesthetics 21
3. Philosophy 27
4. Natural Theology and Religion 33
5. Conduct and Morality 39
6. Virtue and Vice 45
7. Sympathy 53
8. The Impartial Spectator 59
9. Self-Interest 67
10. Money, Gold, and Wealth 73
11. Labour and Wages 81
12. Capital and Profit 93
13. Land and Rent 103
14. The Market and Prices 111
15. An Invisible Hand 123
16. Monopoly and Free Trade 129
17. Taxation 143
18. Colonies 153
19. War 165
20. Patriotism 171
21. Ambition 177
22. Government 185
23. Law and Justice 201
24. Man and Society 211 Index 229