Adam Smith Reconsidered Sagar Paul
Adam Smith Reconsidered Sagar Paul A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him--and why he…
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Adam Smith Reconsidered Sagar Paul
A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him--and why he mattersAdam Smith has long been recognized as the father of modern economics. But Smith's contributions to political theory are still underappreciated and relatively neglected. More recently, scholars have emphasized his standing as a moral philosopher--one who was prepared to critique markets as well as to praise them.
In this bold, revisionary book, Paul Sagar argues that not only have the fundamentals of Smith's political thought been widely misunderstood, but that once we understand them correctly, our estimations of Smith as economist and as moral philosopher must radically change.Rather than seeing Smith either as the prophet of the free market, or as a moralist who thought the dangers of