This anthology collects, for the first time in one volume, not only generous selections from each of Smith's books but also substantial selections from his other work, including his lectures on jurisprudence, his history and philosophy of science, his criticism and belles lettres, and his philosophy of language. It also includes two important letters from Hume, as well as Smith's account of Humes death.
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Adam Smith was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1723. He entered the University of Glasgow at age fourteen, and later attended Balliol College at Oxford. After lecturing for a period, he held several teaching positions at Glasgow University. His greatest achievement was writing The Wealth of Nations (1776), a five-book series that sought to expose the true causes of prosperity, and installed him as the father of contemporary economic thought. He died in Edinburgh on July 19, 1790.
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How selfish so ever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on 4 pages
- Scottish Philosophy: Selected Writings, 1690-1960 (Library of Scottish Philosophy) by Gordon Graham in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Theory of Moral Sentiments (Great Books in Philosophy) by Adam Smith in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 240
- The Fable of the Bees: And Other Writings by Bernard Mandeville in Front Matter, and page 216
- Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Adam Ferguson in Front Matter
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- Actual Ethics by James R. Otteson on 11 pages
- Business And Religion: A Clash of Civilizations? (Conflicts and Trends in Business Ethics) by Nicholas Capaldi on 4 pages
- Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology by Warren Samuels on page 108, and page 111
- Jane Austen and the Enlightenment by Peter Knox-Shaw in Back Matter
- James Beattie: Selected Philosophical Writings (Library of Scottish Philosophy) by James A Harris in Back Matter
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