New Voices on Adam Smith

Informationen zum Autor Leonidas Montes is Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile. Eric Schliesser is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of Syracuse University, USA. Klappentext This important book has been compiled in response to the increased interest in and study of Adam Smith, and makes other multidisciplinary and multi-methodological contributions more accessible. Zusammenfassung This important book has been compiled in response to the increased interest in and study of Adam Smith, and makes other multidisciplinary and multi-methodological contributions more accessible. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Nature Needs Help: Providentialism and Statesmanship in Adam Smith 2. A View from Somewhere: Adam Smith and the Historicity of Moral Judgement 3. Adam Smith, Aristotelian 4. Re-Examining Systemic Legal Change in Smith’s Model of Society 5. Adam Smith and His Contemporary Feminist Discontents 6. True Happiness Costs Little; Happiness and Wealth in Adam Smith's Thought 7. Adam Smith’s Theism 8. Beautiful and Orderly Systems: Adam Smith on the Aesthetics of Political Improvement 9. The Meaning and Philosophical Implications of Smith’s Concepts of Propriety and Self-command 10. Adam Smith and the Daedalian Wings of Paper Money 11. Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Adam Smith's Conception of Philosophy 12. Adam Smith on Progress and Knowledge

Product details

• Authors: Leonidas Montes, Leonidas Schliesser Montes, Montes Leonidas, Eric Schliesser, Schliesser Eric
• Assisted by: Leonidas Montes (Editor), Eric Schliesser (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2006
• EAN: 9780415356961
• ISBN: 978-0-415-35696-1
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Philosophy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative, Economic history