Ian Simpson Ross

The Life of Adam Smith

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith's life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1052g
• ISBN-13: 9780199550036
• ISBN-10: 0199550034
• Artikelnr.: 30180008

Autorenporträt

Ian Simpson Ross is the biographer of Lord Kames, Smith's patron, and of the Scottish poet William Dunbar, and has edited, with E C Mossner, Smith's correspondence for the Glasgow edition of his works. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Kirkcaldy
2: Boyhood
3: Glasgow
4: The Never to be Forgotten Hutcheson
5: Oxford
6: A Respectable Auditory
7: Lectures on the History of Philosophy and Law
8: Called to Glasgow University
9: Teacher
10: Publishing Scholar and Administrator
11: The Making of the Theory of Moral Sentiments
12: Criticism of the Theory of Moral Sentiments
13: Travelling Tutor
14: Transition
15: Inquirer into the Wealth of Nations
16: The American Crisis and the Wealth of Nations
17: Euge! Belle! Dear Mr Smith
18: Dialogue with a Dying Man
19: Settlement in Edinburgh
20: Economic Theorist as Commissioner of Customs
21: Literary Pursuits
22: Times of Hardship and Distress
23: Legacy for Legislators
24: The Precariousness of this Life
25: The Great Change
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