The Life of Adam Smith - Couverture rigide

Ross, Ian Simpson

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199550034 ISBN 13 : 9780199550036

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith's life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has recently come to light, this full-scale biography of Adam Smith examines the personality, career, and social and intellectual circumstances of the Scottish moral philosopher regarded as the founder of scientific economics, whose legacy of thought - most notably about the free market and the role of the state - concerns us all. Ian Simpson Ross draws on correspondence, archival documents, the reports of contemporaries, and the record of Smith's publications to fashion a lively account of Adam Smith as a man of letters, moralist, historian, and critic, as well as an economist. Supported with full scholarly apparatus for students and academics, the book also offers 20 halftone illustrations representing Smith and the world in which he lived.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ian Simpson Ross is the biographer of Lord Kames, Smith's patron, and of the Scottish poet William Dunbar, and has edited, with E C Mossner, Smith's correspondence for the Glasgow edition of his works. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of British Columbia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199550034
• ISBN 13: 9780199550036
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 589
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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