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Author Burgio, Alberto

Title Adam Smith and Modernity 1723-2023
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (383 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy Ser
Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- The Order of Discourse -- 1 Adam Smith and Spontaneous Order -- 2 Systems, Love of System and Modernity -- 3 Adam Smith as a Historian of Economic Thought -- The Virtues of Modern Man -- 4 Adam Smith on Self-command: Utility, Dignity, and Sympathy -- 5 The Joke is not Funny Anymore: Irony, Laughter and Ridicule in Adam Smith -- 6 Smith and Hume on Imagination and Sympathy -- 7 Adam Smith and the Creative Role of Imagination
8 Adam Smith on natural education and moral conscience -- Ethics and Economics -- 9 Adam Smith and a Theory of Just Efficiency -- 10 The Ego-alter-tertius Paradigm: Adam Smith's Interaction Model -- 11 Did Adam Smith hold a Labour Theory of Value? Beaver and Deer Hunters in the Early State -- 12 Endogenous Ethics: Smith's Real Contribution to the Enlightenment -- Theory and Critique of Commercial Society -- 13 The Poor Man's Son: Deception in Adam Smith's Case for free Enterprise -- 14 Whose Adam Smith? The Limits of Law's Action
15 Work and Freedom in Adam Smith: Limits of Historical Experience -- The Problem of History -- 16 History without Providence? Adam Smith -- Historian and Critic of Modernity -- 17 Specialization and Commercial Modernity: Adam Smith as Sociologist -- 18 Smith and the Savages in the Wealth of Nations, or the Anthropology of Political Economy -- 19 On the Nature and Causes of Trade and the Progress of Civilization -- Index of Passages Quoted -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
Civilization, Modern
Economists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000858204
1000858200