Adam Smith

Shows the extent to which "The Wealth of Nations" and Adam Smith's other great work, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand 'Science of Man', one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, which was to encompass law, history and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Phillipson
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2010
• EAN: 9780713993967
• ISBN: 978-0-7139-9396-7
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 33 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies