Adam Smith : An Enlightened Life

ISBN-13: 9780140287288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str.

Nicholas Phillipson

Opis

Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of 'The Wealth of Nations' and the founder of modern economics. In this book, Nicholas Phillipson radically rewrites the first half of Smith's life, tracing the formation of his ideas.

Recenzje

Phillipson has produced a remarkable and often brilliant intellectual biography ... stuffed with acute philosophical observations ... [His] exposition of Smith's "enlightened life" could scarcely be bettered Oliver Kamm The Times

O autorze

Nicholas Phillipson is Honorary Research Fellow in History at Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1965. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Yale, Tulsa, the Folger Library, Washington DC and the Ludwigs-Maximilian Universitat, Munich. He is co-director of a three-year Leverhulme-funded project on the Science of Man in Scotland. He was an associate editor of the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a founder editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History, published by the Cambridge University Press, and is a past president of the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society.