Knud Haakonssen (ed.)

Gebundenes Buch

The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith

Beschreibung

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 Smiths comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smiths system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. This Companion volume provides an up-to-date examination of all aspects of Smiths thought.

Autor

Knud Haakonssen is 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 836g
• ISBN-13: 9780521770590
• ISBN-10: 0521770599
• Artikelnr.: 22002501

Rezensionen

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