Adam Smith: The Man and His Works

Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, was no dry pedant. His lectures and writings are alive with examples taken from the busy eighteenth-century world around him, and Edmund Burke praised his literary style as “rather painting than writing.” It was Adam Smith who taught moral philosophy and literary criticism to Boswell at the Universityof Glasgow, and in Smith’s works we follow his interests from political history to law, sociology, economic and social history, philosophy, and Engl...