Adam Smith

Zusammenfassung This is a 1956 study of eminent Scot Adam Smith - author of The Wealth of Nations - and the Scotland in which he lived and wrote. It also examines the contribution which he and his fellow-countrymen made to the accomplishment of the eighteenth century in many fields.

Klappentext

This is a 1956 study of eminent Scot Adam Smith and the Scotland in which he lived and wrote.

Inhalt

1. Scotland's Augustan Age; 2. Life and verdict; 3. Kirkcaldy; 4. Glasgow; 5. Edinburgh; 6. The academic succession; 7. Political economy and the law; 8. Smith, Townshend and Wedderburn; 9. Smith, Franklin and Strahan; 10. Smith and Gibbon; 11. Smith, Toulouse and Turgot; Appendix: the Muir portrait A. L. Macfie; Index.