Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism s founding father, to recover his understanding of the morals of the market age. In so doing it illuminates a crucial albeit overlooked side of Smith s project: his diagnosis of the ethical ills of commercial societies and the remedy he advanced to cure them. Focusing on Smith s analysis of the psychological and social ills endemic to commercial society anxiety and restlessness, inauthenticity and...
Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and p...
Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism s founding father, to recover his understanding of the morals of the market age. In so doing it illuminates a crucial albeit overlooked side of Smith s project: his diagnosis of the ethical ills of commercial societies and the remedy he advanced to cure them. Focusing on Smith s analysis of the psychological and social ills endemic to commercial society anxiety and restlessness, inauthenticity and...
Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and p...
