A superb book Financial Times, Books of the Year

Adam Smith is now widely regarded as the father of modern economics and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and the freedom of the individual? Or a prime mover of market fundamentalism and an apologist for inequality and human selfishness? Or something else entirely? Jesse Normans brilliantly conceived ook gives us not just Smiths economics, but his vastly wider intellectual project. Against...