Adam Smith

Informationen zum Autor Knud Haakonssen is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Sussex. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, he is the author and editor of numerous books and texts, most recently Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment and, with Andrew S. Skinner, Index to the Works of Adam Smith. Klappentext Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy! however! was only one part of Smiths comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language! arts! science! and social intercourse! Smiths system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. This Companion volume provides an up-to-date examination of all aspects of Smiths thought. Zusammenfassung Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy! however! was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Method of citation; Introduction: the coherence of Smith's thought Knud Haakonssen; 1. Imagination: morals, science and arts Charles L. Griswold Jr; 2. Adam Smith, Belletrist Mark Salber Phillips; 3. Adam Smith's theory of language Marcelo Dascal; 4. Smith and science Christopher J. Berry; 5. Smith on ingenuity, pleasure and the imitative arts Neil De Marchi; 6. Sympathy and the impartial spectator Alexander Broadie; 7. Virtues, utility and rules Robert Shaver; 8. Adam Smith on justice, rights and law David Lieberman; 9. Self-interest and other interests Pratap Bhanu Mehta; 10. Adam Smith and history J. G .A. Pocock; 11. Adam Smith's politics Douglas Long; 12. Adam Smith's economics Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen; 13. The legacy of Adam Smith Knud Haakonssen and Donald Winch; Bibliography; Index....

Product details

• Authors: Knud Haakonssen
• Assisted by: Knud Haakonssen (Editor), Haakonssen Knud (Editor), Haakonssen Knud (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521770590
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77059-0
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Philos; Cambridge Companions to Philosophy; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy of Mind, Social & political philosophy, c 1500 onwards to present day, Economic theory & philosophy, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law