{"product_id":"adam-smith-9780140287288","title":"Adam Smith","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wealth of Nations \u003c\/i\u003eand the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas -  such as the ''Invisible Hand'' of the market - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist, and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. This book, by one of the leading scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, shows the extent to which \u003ci\u003eThe Wealth of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e and Smith''s other great work, \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of Moral Sentiments\u003c\/i\u003e, were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand ''Science of Man'', one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, which was to encompass law, history and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Phillipson reconstructs Smith''s intellectual ancestry and formation, of which he gives a radically new and convincing account. He shows Smith''s inter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillipson has produced a remarkable and often brilliant intellectual biography ... stuffed with acute philosophical observations ... [His] exposition of Smith's \"enlightened life\" could scarcely be bettered -- Oliver Kamm * The Times *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017564586327,"sku":"9780140287288","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140287288.jpg?v=1750773959","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adam-smith-9780140287288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}