Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

Adam Smith's Lost Legacy
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9780230511194
ISBN-13 : 0230511198
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Book Synopsis Adam Smith's Lost Legacy by : G. Kennedy

Download or read book Adam Smith's Lost Legacy written by G. Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-02-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political economy and his lectures on Jurisprudence. The book provides a new analysis of Wealth of Nations , and argues that Adam Smith's intellectual legacy was completely transformed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries by economists pursuing different agendas, to create ideas and policies that Smith did not advocate. It also provides a new explanation for the main mysteries about Smith's later life.


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