An Authentic Account of Adam Smith

Provides an informed survey of the existing corpus of Smithian studies, as well as a number of suggested original lines of further debate

Though not written as a biography, it often draws on details of Smith's life in order to illustrate an authentic version of his works and the ideas that informed them

Makes extensive use of primary sources on Smith

Autorentext
Gavin Kennedy is Emeritus Professor, Heriot-Watt University, UK, with 33 years teaching experience in economics, defence economics, public finance, and business negotiation, at Brunel, Strathclyde, and Heriot-Watt universities, and has been a visiting lecturer at universities and colleges in Britain, Canada and Australia, and for numerous government departments. He has published widely in defence, business negotiation and classical economics, most recently, Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Adam Smith: A Moral Philosopher and His Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Inhalt

Preface.- 1. General Introduction.- 2. Smith on Bargaining.- 3. The Edinburgh Rhetoric Lectures.- 4. Smith's use of the Invisible Hand metaphor.- 5. The myths of the invisible hand.- 6. Smith on Jurisprudence.- 7. The Theory of Moral Sentiments.- 8. Wealth of Nations.- 9. Summary and Conclusions.