The Wisdom of Adam Smith

Adam Smith; John Haggarty [Compiler]; Benjamin A. Rogge [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0913966223 / ISBN 13: 9780913966228

Published by Liberty Fund Inc., 1976

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wisdom of Adam Smith
• Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913966223
• ISBN 13: 9780913966228
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Used: Good

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Synopsis

Adam Smith was an eloquent man of considerable philosophical and historical learning. His most incisive and enduring observations are collected here on subjects ranging from political and economic history to morals, art, education, war, and the American colonies. Throughout, notes an admirer in the introduction, “his writing is blessedly free of that use of jargon (and mathematics) that characterizes most of the modern materials in economics. His ideas are expressed in a lucid, straightforward manner that makes them accessible to all.”

About the Author

Adam Smith was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1723. He entered the University of Glasgow at age fourteen, and later attended Balliol College at Oxford. After lecturing for a period, he held several teaching positions at Glasgow University. His greatest achievement was writing The Wealth of Nations (1776), a five-book series that sought to expose the true causes of prosperity, and installed him as the father of contemporary economic thought. He died in Edinburgh on July 19, 1790.