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2009.
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Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he investigated the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good. Smith's classic work advances ideas about conscience, moral judgment, and virtue that have taken on renewed importance in business and politics.
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Great books of the Western world volume 39
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First published in March of 1776, Adam Smith wrote the book to influence a special audience - the British Parliament - and its arguments in the early spring of that year pressed for peace and cooperation with Britain's colonies rather than war.
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[2006]
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Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written over a ten-year period, this work was first published in 1776. It is the classic statement of economic liberalism or the policy of laissez-faire. The Wealth of Nations is an engrossing analysis of the economic facts of life.Several fundamental...
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[2006]
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Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written over a ten-year period, this work was first published in 1776. It is the classic statement of economic liberalism or the policy of laissez-faire. The Wealth of Nations is an engrossing analysis of the economic facts of life.Several fundamental...
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©2007
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History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics. The text traces the turbulent lives and battles of ideas of the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.
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2010
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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 aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Phillipson explains Adam Smith's part in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh at the time...
10) Adam Smith
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©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 6
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Discusses the life of Adam Smith, recognized as the founding father of economics when he wrote about the importance of individual freedom and free trade in the 1700s.
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2022.
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"Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Smith is one of the most influential icons of economic thought in America. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and weaponized Smith's ideas, revealing how his popular image as a champion of American-style capitalism...