Adam Smith’s America : : How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism /

Adam Smith’s America : : How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism / / Glory M. Liu.

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America’s founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Smith...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2022 English
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Liu, Glory M.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 6 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Best Book Extant
  • 2 Whence He Is Called Its Founder
  • 3 The Apostle of Free Trade
  • 4 In the Vanguard of the New School
  • 5 Economics Must Be Political Economy
  • 6 Alive and Well and Living in Chicago
  • 7 Turning Smith Back on the Present
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Index
  • A NOTE ON THE TYPE

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