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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Economic sentiments Economic sentiments Emma Rotschild "Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their day, with important consequences for o… OL12385214W
The authentic Adam Smith The authentic Adam Smith James Buchan Author Buchan breathes new life into Adam Smith's legacy and the beginnings of modern economics. Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological fa… OL15133454W
Adam Smith and the circles of sympathy Adam Smith and the circles of sympathy Fonna Forman-Barzilai "Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy pursues Adam Smith's views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law both in historical context and through a twenty-first… OL18345601W
Adam Smith Adam Smith Gavin Kennedy "Western Europe, stagnant since the fall of Rome, showed signs of economic resurgence in the mid-18th century. Adam Smith was excited by the potential of this new era, and he was inspired to study th… OL1849069W
The age of reasons The age of reasons Wendy Motooka The Age of Reasons reads Don Quixote as a parodic example of eighteenth-century "reason." Reason was supposed to be universally compelling, yet it was also thought to be empirically derived. Quixotic… OL2739372W
Economic philosophy Economic philosophy Adelino Zanini The book investigates the relationship between the economic and political writings of four seminal authors: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Joseph A. Schumpeter, and John M. Keynes. It underlines how in their… OL4518468W
Adam Smith and the classics Adam Smith and the classics Gloria Vivenza "Adam Smith and the Classics analyses the influence of classical culture - the work of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and the Stoics - on Adam Smith's thought. Vivenza bases her arguments on elements of S… OL4737854W
The Glasgow edition of the works and correspondence of Adam Smith The Glasgow edition of the works and correspondence of Adam Smith Adam Smith First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith's Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political ec… OL76816W