The Wealth of Nations (Hackett Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Adam Smith

ISBN 10

0872202054

ISBN 13

9780872202054

Tags

Economic Conditions, Economic History, Theory, Colonial Period, Modern, Political Economy, Economic Theory, United States, History & Surveys, Political Science

Description

This thoughtful new abridgment is enriched by the brilliant commentary which accompanies it. In it, Laurence Dickey argues that the Wealth of Nations contains--and conceals--a great deal of how Smith actually thought a commercial society works. Guided by his conviction that the so-called Adam Smith Problem--the relationship between ethics and economics in Smith's thinking--is a core element in the argument of the work itself, Dickey's commentary focuses on the devices Smith uses to ground his economics in broadly ethical and social categories. An unparalleled guide to an often difficult and perplexing work. - from Amzon

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