The Essential Adam Smith (2019) by James Otteson is an excellent, free, introduction to Adam Smith and his works. Otteson is a professor of Business Ethics at Notre Dame.
I’ve tried to read Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (WN) but have failed and this book has given me more impetus to read WN. The Essential Adam Smith also extensively covers Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS).
Smith was part of the Scottish Enlightenment that also included David Hume, another great that few people have read.
The Essential Adam Smith looks at how Smith developed his philosophy and how his theory of economics was also very much tied into his overall philosophy. Smith viewed morals as something that is developed socially by people interacting with each other. While many have seen Smith as saying that amoral markets work it is not correct. It is also pointed out that Smith thought that governments should let people make their own free choices rather than telling them what to do.
The Essential Adam Smith is a very good book that provides a scholarly overview of Smith’s works and it has very much encouraged me to go and read Adam Smith.
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