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Adam Smith - What He Thought, and Why it Matters (Paperback)
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Adam Smith - What He Thought, and Why it Matters (Paperback)
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'A superb book' Financial Times, Books of the Year Adam Smith is
now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the
most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really
thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain
fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and
the freedom of the individual? Or a prime mover of 'market
fundamentalism' and an apologist for inequality and human
selfishness? Or something else entirely? Jesse Norman's brilliantly
conceived \book gives us not just Smith's economics, but his vastly
wider intellectual project. Against the turbulent backdrop of
Enlightenment Scotland, it lays out a succinct and highly engaging
account of Smith's life and times, reviews his work as a whole and
traces his influence over the past two centuries. But this book is
not only a biography. It dispels the myths and debunks the
caricatures that have grown up around Adam Smith. It explores
Smith's ideas in detail, from ethics to law to economics and
government, and the impact of those ideas on thinkers as diverse as
Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek.
Far from being simply an economist, Adam Smith emerges as one of
the founders of modern social psychology and behavioural theory.
Far from being a doctrinaire 'libertarian' or 'neoliberal' thinker,
he offers a strikingly modern evolutionary theory of political
economy, which recognises the often complementary roles of markets
and the state. At a time when economics and politics are ever more
polarized between left and right, this book, by offering a Smithian
analysis of contemporary markets, predatory capitalism and the 2008
financial crash, returns us to first principles and shows how the
lost centre of modern public debate can be recreated. Through
Smith's work, it addresses crucial issues of inequality, human
dignity and exploitation; and it provides a compelling explanation
of why he remains central to any attempt to defend, reform or renew
the market system.
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