After Adam Smith : a Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy /

Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. After Adam Smith looks at how politics and political economy were articulated and altered in the century following the publication of Smith's Wealth of Nations. It considers how grand i...

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Autori principali: Milgate, Murray (Autore), Stimson, Shannon C. (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7t94z
Sommario:
  • Introduction
  • Adam Smith's political odyssey
  • The rise and fall of civil society
  • Economic life and political life
  • The economic machine and the invisible hand
  • The figure of Smith
  • Population and political economy
  • Utility, property, and political participation
  • Economic opinion on parliamentary reform
  • Utopias and stationary states
  • Labour defended
  • Individual liberty and the liberty of trade
  • Two critiques of classical political economy.