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Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian - An Interpretation for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian - An Interpretation for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer
This book aims to show that Adam Smith (1723-90), the author of The
Wealth of Nations, was not the promoter of ruthless laissez-faire
capitalism that is still frequently depicted. Smith's "right-wing"
reputation was sealed after his death when it was not safe to claim
that an author may have influenced the French revolutionaries. But
as the author, also, of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which he
probably regarded as his more important book, Smith sought a
non-religious grounding for morals, and found it in the principle
of sympathy, which should lead an impartial spectator to understand
others' problems. This book locates Smith in the Scottish
Enlightenment; shows how the two books are perfectly consistent
with one another; traces Smith's influence in France and the United
States; and draws out the lessons that Adam Smith can teach policy
makers in the 21st Century. Although Smith was not a religious man,
he was a very acute sociologist of religion. The book accordingly
explains the Scottish religious context of Smith's time, which was,
as it remains, very different to the English religious context. The
whole book is shot through with Iain McLean's love for the
Edinburgh of his birth, and for the Scottish Enlightenment. It
begins and ends with poems by Smith's great admirer Robert Burns.
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