Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society

ISBN-13: 9780691001616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 263 str.

Jerry Z. Muller

Opis

Counter to the popular impression that Adam Smith was a champion of selfishness and greed, Jerry Muller shows that the Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations maintained that markets served to promote the well-being of the populace and that government must intervene to counteract the negative effects of the pursuit of self-interest. Smith's analysis went beyond economics to embrace a larger "civilizing project" designed to create a more decent society.