Adam Smith

  • Adam Smith
    Adam Smith
    By James R. Otteson

    Interregnum: between TMS and WN In 1763 Smith resigned his post at Glasgow to become the personal tutor of Henry Scott, the Third Duke of Buccleuch, whom Smith then accompanied on an 18-month tour of France and Switzerland.

  • Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
    Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
    By Adam Smith

    This volume offers a new edition of the text with helpful notes for the student reader, and a substantial introduction that establishes the work in its philosophical and historical context.

  • Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters
    Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters
    By Jesse Norman

    But this book is not only a biography. It dispels the myths and debunks the caricatures that have grown up around Adam Smith.

  • Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings
    Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings
    By James R. Otteson

    TMS brought Smith considerable acclaim during his lifetime and was quickly considered one of the great works of moral theory.

  • Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
    Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
    By Adam Smith

    A new edition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, an important text in the history of moral and political thought.

  • Adam Smith: Critical Assessments
    Adam Smith: Critical Assessments
    By John Cunningham Wood

    Adam Smith: Critical Assessments

  • Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety
    Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety
    By Stephen J McKenna

    In this volume, Stephen J. McKenna provides the first book-length treatment of Smith's rhetorical theory, focusing on his theory of rhetorical propriety-the means by which effective communication is adapted to the variables of subject, ...

  • Adam Smith
    Adam Smith
    By Jonathan Conlin

    In this book, Jonathan Conlin rescues Smith from the straight-jacket of economics, reattaching the “invisible hand” to Smith’s philosophy of ethics. As Conlin shows, Smith rooted our instincts to trade in human psychology.

  • Adam Smith
    Adam Smith
    By Samuel Fleischacker

    Adam Smith (1723–1790) is widely regarded as one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment period.

  • Adam Smith: What He Thought, and why it Matters
    Adam Smith: What He Thought, and why it Matters
    By Jesse Norman

    But this book is not only a biography. It dispels the myths and debunks the caricatures that have grown up around Adam Smith.

  • Adam Smith: The Man and His Works
    Adam Smith: The Man and His Works
    By E. G. West

    Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, was no dry pedant. His lectures and writings are alive with examples taken from the busy eighteenth-century world around him, and Edmund...

  • Adam Smith: A Moral Philosopher and His Political Economy
    Adam Smith: A Moral Philosopher and His Political Economy
    By G. Kennedy

    This book presents the authentic Adam Smith and explores his underlying approach and radical thinking, aiming to re-establish his original intentions.