TY - GEN T1 - Adam Smith, radical and egalitarian : an interpretation for the 21st century A1 - McLean, Iain LA - English PP - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press YR - 2006 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm71000530 AB - Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer This book aims to show that Adam Smith (1723-90), the author of The Wealth of Nations, was not the promoter of ruthless laissez-faire capitalism that is still frequently depicted. Smith's right-wing" reputation was sealed after his death when it was not safe to claim that an author may have influenced the French revolutionaries. But as the author, also, of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which he probably regarded as his more important book, Smith sought a non-religious grounding for morals, and found it in the principle of sympathy, which should lead an impartial spectator to understand others' problems. This book locates Smith in the Scottish Enlightenment; shows how the two books are perfectly consistent with one another; traces Smith's influence in France and the United States; and draws out the lessons that Adam Smith can teach policy makers in the 21st Century. Although Smith was not a religious man, he was a very acute sociologist of religion. The book accordingly explains the Scottish religious context of Smith's time, which was, as it remains, very different to the English religious context. The whole book is shot through with Iain McLean's love for the Edinburgh of his birth, and for the Scottish Enlightenment. It begins and ends with poems by Smith's great admirer Robert Burns. CN - HB103.S6 M35 2006eb SN - 0748627057 SN - 9780748627059 SN - 9780748623525 SN - 0748623523 SN - 9780748623532 SN - 0748623531 SN - 1280538449 SN - 9781280538445 KW - Smith, Adam, : 1723-1790 : Influence. KW - Smith, Adam, : 1723-1790. : Wealth of nations. KW - Smith, Adam, : 1723-1790. : Theory of moral sentiments. KW - Smith, Adam, : 1723-1790 KW - Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (Smith, Adam) KW - Theory of moral sentiments (Smith, Adam) KW - Smith, Adam (Philosoph) KW - Economics : Philosophy. KW - Enlightenment : Scotland. KW - Économie politique : Philosophie. KW - Siècle des Lumières : Écosse. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Economics : Theory. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Business. KW - Economics : Philosophy KW - Enlightenment KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Scotland KW - Schottische Aufklärung : Philosophenschule ER -