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(Edited By Knud Haakonssen) - The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith - 9780521779241 - KSG0038215
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The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith

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Description for The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith paperback. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Editor(s): Haakonssen, Knud. Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HPCD; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith's system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith's multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all of his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosophical engagement with his ideas.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521779241
SKU
KSG0038215
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99-1

About (Edited By Knud Haakonssen)
Knud Haakonssen is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Sussex. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, he is the author and editor of numerous books and texts, most recently Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment and, with Andrew S. Skinner, Index to the Works of Adam Smith.

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“Historian Haakonssen has assembled arguably the most wide-ranging perspective yet published on the social vision of Adam Smith.”
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