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Language: English
Published by Allen & Unwin, 1974
Series: Book 3 of 5 - Routledge Library Editions: Adam Smith
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0049421190.
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- Title
- Human Documents of Adam Smith's Time
- Author
- Pike, E. R.
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0049421190
- ISBN 13
- 9780049421196
- Item weight
- 450 grams
- Series
- Book 3 of 5: Routledge Library Editions: Adam Smith
- Seller catalogs
- History
First published in 1974, this is not a ‘life’ of the founder of the science of economics, although it opens with a biographical sketch; nor is it an analysis of The Wealth of Nations , although it contains numerous pointed quotations from it. Rather, it is a presentation of Adam Smith against his background of time and place, eighteenth century Britain on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. The first chapter consists of ‘documents’ illustrating life in ‘low life’ be it noted, which is not to say that it is all sordidness and debauchery and crime (though there is plenty of that in evidence) but life as it was lived by the ‘lower orders’, whom Adam Smith gratefully recognises as ‘the great body of the people’. The last chapter describes the Scotland that Adam Smith knew – Kirkaldy, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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