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Adam Smith: The Man and His Works
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Adam Smith, author of
The Wealth of Nations
, was no dry pedant. His lectures and writings are alive with examples taken from the busy eighteenth-century world around him, and Edmund Burke praised his literary style as “rather painting than writing.” It was Adam Smith who taught moral philosophy and literary criticism to Boswell at the Universityof Glasgow, and in Smith’s works we follow his interests from political history to law, sociology, economic and social history, philosophy, and English literature.
E. G. West brings to life Adam Smith’s first years in the bustling Scottish seaport of Kirkcaldy (and recounts Smith’s brief kidnapping, as a baby, by gypsies). We follow young Smith as a student, watch his thought develop as Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, and enjoy with him the hospitality of David Hume, the Parisian literary salons, Johnson, Burke, Gibbon, and other giants of the era.
West gives us a masterful summary of
. Even more significant, West restores to eminence an earlier work of Smith’s,
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
. “If
had never been written,” he asserts, “this previous work would have earned for him a prominent place in intellectual history.” West takes particular delight in using
to rebut Marx’s assumptions about laissez-faire capitalism.
E. G. West was educated at the UniversityCollege of Exeter, graduating in economics in 1948. He has taught at several British colleges and at Carleton Universityin Ottawa, and has been a visiting research scholar at the Universityof Chicago and the Universityof California at Berkeley and a visiting professor at the Center for Study of Public Choice, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. West authored several books including
Education and the State
and
Education and the Industrial Revolution
. His articles have appeared in numerous periodicals and scholarly journals.
The Wealth of Nations
, was no dry pedant. His lectures and writings are alive with examples taken from the busy eighteenth-century world around him, and Edmund Burke praised his literary style as “rather painting than writing.” It was Adam Smith who taught moral philosophy and literary criticism to Boswell at the Universityof Glasgow, and in Smith’s works we follow his interests from political history to law, sociology, economic and social history, philosophy, and English literature.
E. G. West brings to life Adam Smith’s first years in the bustling Scottish seaport of Kirkcaldy (and recounts Smith’s brief kidnapping, as a baby, by gypsies). We follow young Smith as a student, watch his thought develop as Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, and enjoy with him the hospitality of David Hume, the Parisian literary salons, Johnson, Burke, Gibbon, and other giants of the era.
West gives us a masterful summary of
. Even more significant, West restores to eminence an earlier work of Smith’s,
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
. “If
had never been written,” he asserts, “this previous work would have earned for him a prominent place in intellectual history.” West takes particular delight in using
to rebut Marx’s assumptions about laissez-faire capitalism.
E. G. West was educated at the UniversityCollege of Exeter, graduating in economics in 1948. He has taught at several British colleges and at Carleton Universityin Ottawa, and has been a visiting research scholar at the Universityof Chicago and the Universityof California at Berkeley and a visiting professor at the Center for Study of Public Choice, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. West authored several books including
Education and the State
and
Education and the Industrial Revolution
. His articles have appeared in numerous periodicals and scholarly journals.
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