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Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Societyby Jerry Z. MullerISBN 0691001618 (0-691-00161-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: New Interdisciplinary Essaysby Adam Smith, Stephen Copley, Kathryn SutherlandISBN 0719039436 (0-7190-3943-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: New Interdisciplinary Essays'Book summary:First published in 1776, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is much more than just a handbook on the principles of free-market economics; it is a founding text for the organisation of Western society in its broadest sense. In order to understand the impact of Smith's text across the academic disciplines, this volume brings together leading scholars from fields of economics, politics, history, sociology and literature. Each essay offers a different reading of Wealth of Nations and its legacy. Contributors consider the historical context in which Wealth of Nations was written, its reception and its profound impact on contemporary concepts of market liberalism, on education, on gender relations and on environmental debates. The volume also offers deconstructive analyses of the text and a feminist critique of Smith's construction of the economy. This volume will be the ideal companion to Smith's work for all students of literature, politics and economic history. [via]
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Cliffsnotes Worldly Philosophers Notesby Joseph M. LeonISBN 0822013851 (0-8220-1385-1)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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The Correspondence of Adam Smithby Adam Smith, Ernest Campbell Mossner, Ian Simpson RossISBN 0913966991 (0-913966-99-1)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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Democracy in Americaby Thomas Bender, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 039432675X (0-394-32675-X)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Classic analysis of america's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), a french aristocrat who visited the united states in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of america's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, i confess that in america i saw more than america; i sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress [via]
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Du Contrat Socialby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice HalbwachsISBN 2700700368 (2-7007-0036-8)
Hardcover, Aubier, Editions Montaigne
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Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenmentby Emma RothschildISBN 0674008375 (0-674-00837-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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El Contrato Social / the Social Agreementby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 8484034518 (84-8403-451-8)
Softcover, Edimat Libros
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Essays on Philosophical Subjectsby Adam SmithISBN 1425472540 (1-4254-7254-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Fable of the Beesby Bernard MandevilleISBN 0865970750 (0-86597-075-0)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believedby Mapp, Alf J., Jr.ISBN 0742531147 (0-7425-3114-7)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in Americaby Frank LambertISBN 069112602X (0-691-12602-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Free Trade and Moral Philosophyby Richard TeichgraberISBN 082230886X (0-8223-0886-X)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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General Theory of Employment, Interest and Moneyby John KeynesISBN 1573921394 (1-57392-139-4)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Glasgow and the Enlightenmentby Richard B. Sher, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, A. HookISBN 1898410186 (1-898410-18-6)
Hardcover, Tuckwell Press in association with the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Mortimer Jerome Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Philip W. GoetzISBN 0852295316 (0-85229-531-6)
Hardcover, Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialismby Joshua MuravchikISBN 1893554783 (1-893554-78-3)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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Socialism was mans most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in science. Indeed, no religion ever spread so far so fast. Yet while socialism had established itself as a fact of life by the beginning of the 20th century, it did not create societies of abundance or give birth to the New Man. Each failure inspired new searches for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, Communism, Fascism, Third World socialism. None worked, and some exacted staggering human tolls. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes.
In Heaven on Earth, Joshua Muravchik traces this fiery trajectory through sketches of the thinkers and leaders who developed the theory, led it to power, and presided over its collapse. We see such dreamers and doers as the French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf, whose Conspiracy of Equals were the first to try to outlaw private property; Robert Owen, who hoped to plant a model socialist utopia in the United States; Friedrich Engels, who created the cult of Karl Marx and scientific socialism; Benito Mussolini, self proclaimed socialist heretic and inventor of Fascism; Clement Attlee, who rejected the fanatics and set out to build socialism democratically in Britain; Julius Nyerere, who merged social democracy and communism in the hope of making Tanzania a model for the developing world; and Mikhail Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping and Tony Blair, who became socialisms inadvertent undertakers.
Muravchiks accomplishment in Heaven on Earth is to tell a story filled with character and event while at the same time giving us an epic chronicle of a movement that tried to turn the world upside downand for a time succeeded.
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in Itby Arthur HermanISBN 0609809997 (0-609-80999-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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It is only natural, Herman suggests, that a country that once ranked among Europe's poorest, if most literate, would prize the ideal of progress, measured "by how far we have come from where we once were." Forged in the Scottish Enlightenment, that ideal would inform the political theories of Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and David Hume, and other Scottish thinkers who viewed "man as a product of history," and whose collective enterprise involved "nothing less than a massive reordering of human knowledge" (yielding, among other things, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in Edinburgh in 1768, and the Declaration of Independence, published in Philadelphia just a few years later). On a more immediately practical front, but no less bound to that notion of progress, Scotland also fielded inventors, warriors, administrators, and diplomats such as Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Simon MacTavish, and Charles James Napier, who created empires and great fortunes, extending Scotland's reach into every corner of the world.
Herman examines the lives and work of these and many more eminent Scots, capably defending his thesis and arguing, with both skill and good cheer, that the Scots "have by and large made the world a better place rather than a worse place." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Idea of Civil Societyby Adam B. SeligmanISBN 0691010811 (0-691-01081-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsby Adam SmithISBN 1404309993 (1-4043-0999-3)
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Criticizing mercantilists who sought to use the state to increase their nations' supply of precious metals, Smith points out that a nation's wealth should be measured by the well-being of its people. Prosperity in turn requires voluntary exchange of goods in a peaceful, well-ordered market. How to establish and maintain such markets? For Smith the answer lay in man's social instincts, which government may encourage by upholding social standards of decency, honesty, and virtue, but which government undermines when it unduly interferes with the intrinsically private functions of production and exchange.More editions of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Editionby Adam Smith, Kathryn SutherlandISBN 0192835467 (0-19-283546-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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This edition includes generous selections from all five books of the Wealth of Nations. It also provides full notes and a commentary that places Smith's work within a rich interdisciplinary context. [via]More editions of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition:
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations/2 Volumes in 1by Adam SmithISBN 0226763749 (0-226-76374-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations/2 Volumes in 1'Book summary:Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for the principles of political economy, it is the point of departure for all subsequent economic thought. Smith's theories of capital accumulation, growth, and secular change, among others, continue to be influential in modern economics.[via]
This reprint of Edwin Cannan's definitive 1904 edition of The Wealth of Nations includes Cannan's famous introduction, notes, and a full index, as well as a new preface written especially for this edition by the distinguished economist George J. Stigler. Mr. Stigler's preface will be of value for anyone wishing to see the contemporary relevance of Adam Smith's thought.More editions of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations/2 Volumes in 1:
John Maynard Keynes: The Economist As Savior, 1920-1937by Robert SkidelskyISBN 0713991100 (0-7139-9110-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lectures on Jurisprudenceby Adam SmithISBN 0865970114 (0-86597-011-4)
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettresby Adam Smith, J. C. BryceISBN 0865970521 (0-86597-052-1)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Leninby Bernard SemmelISBN 0801845408 (0-8018-4540-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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From Adam Smith to Lenin, the subject of colonialism--and then imperialism--remained controversial. Although classical economists offered visions of a prosperous world economy based on free trade, and liberal idealists argued that rational self-interest would eliminate aggressive mercantilism and wars of conquest, such "utopian" ideals proved elusive. Even defenders of capitalism noted contradictions between the harsh realities of the emerging industrial system and the optimistic economic theories that attempted to describe it. In the end the critics--including liberal sociologists, national economists, and Marxists--would win the day by defining imperialism in terms of historic demons: feudal aristocrats, medieval usurers, and evil empires. These ideas, Semmel concludes, became props of the liberal, socialist, and fascist ideologies of our time.
"A generation ago, Richard Koebner traced the changing meanings of the word imperialism from its rather surprising Napoleonic beginnings. Now, building on a succession of books with which he has enriched the literature, Bernard Semmel addresses the wider question of the evolution in thought to which the evolution of the word was, so to speak, an index. Semmel's book will beunquestionably useful to historians--particularly those outside the confines of European expansion--and will be valuable as supplemental reading in college courses. One wonders if it will have the effect one would most like to see--on politicians, publicists, and praters who continue to use the word imperialism so inappropriately."--Robert K. Webb, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bernard Semmel is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. His studies of imperialism include Imperialism and Social Reform, Jamaican Blood and Victorian Conscience, and The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism. He has also written on Methodism, John Stuart Mill, and naval strategy.
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Life of Adam Smithby John RaeISBN 160206041X (1-60206-041-X)
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The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkersby Mark SkousenISBN 0765604809 (0-7656-0480-9)
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The Needs of Strangersby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0701128674 (0-7011-2867-4)
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On Adam Smith`s Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companionby Samuel FleischackerISBN 0691115028 (0-691-11502-8)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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On Moral Sentiments: Contemporary Responses to Adam Smithby Andrew Pyle, John ReederISBN 1855065509 (1-85506-550-9)
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On The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 087220068X (0-87220-068-X)
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On the Wealth of Nationsby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0871139499 (0-87113-949-9)
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On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the Worldby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 080211833X (0-8021-1833-X)
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One Nation Under God: Religious Symbols, Quotes, and Images in Our Nation's Capitalby Eugene F. HemrickISBN 0879739916 (0-87973-991-6)
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Reading "Adam Smith": Desire, History and Valueby Michael J. ShapiroISBN 0742521338 (0-7425-2133-8)
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The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern Worldby Arthur HermanISBN 1841152765 (1-84115-276-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World'Book summary:'Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.' Irvine Welsh, Guardian A dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. Arthur Herman argues that Scotland's turbulent history, from William Wallace to the Presbyterian Lords of the Covenant, laid the foundations for 'the Scottish miracle'. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the eighteenth century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it. He follows the lives and work of thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume, writers such as Burns and Boswell, as well as architects, technicians and inventors, and traces their legacy into the twentieth century. Written with wit, erudition and clarity, The Scottish Enlightenment claims the Scots' rightful place in the history of the western world. [via]
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Derek Matravers, H. J. TozerISBN 1853267813 (1-85326-781-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Social Contract'Book summary:With the publication of The Social Contract in 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau took his place among the leading political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Like his contractarian predecessors (Thomas Hobbes and John Locke), Rousseau sought to ground his political theory in an understanding of human nature, which he believed to be basically good but corrupted by the conflicting inteerests within society. Here self-interest degenerated into a state of war from which humanity could only be extricated by the imposition of a contract. As a party to the compact, each individual would find his true interest served within the political expression of the community of man, or the "general will."What is the content of human nature and how does it compel mankind to come together to create a civil society? What form does this society take? What benefits does it offer its citizens, and what must each individual sacrifice to reap its rewards? How does sovereign power manifest itself, and what consequences follow for those who choose not to abide by the "general will"? Does Rousseau's political theory set forth a blueprint for democracyone that results in equality, universal suffrage, and popular sovereigntyor is it a recipe for central state totalitarianism? These are just a few of the complex questions that will confront readers of The Social Contract.Whatever their intent or iltimate result, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's views on the state and man's relationship to it have culminated in one of the most powerful and compelling pieces of political philosophy ever written. [via]
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The Social Life of Informationby Paul Duguid, John Seely BrownISBN 1578517087 (1-57851-708-7)
Softcover, Harvard Business School Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Social Life of Information'Book summary:How many times has your PC crashed today? While Gordon Moore's now famous law projecting the doubling of computer power every 18 months has more than borne itself out, it's too bad that a similar trajectory projecting the reliability and usefulness of all that power didn't come to pass, as well. Advances in information technology are most often measured in the cool numbers of megahertz, throughput, and bandwidth--but, for many us, the experience of these advances may be better measured in hours of frustration.
The gap between the hype of the Information Age and its reality is often wide and deep, and it's into this gap that John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid plunge. Not that these guys are Luddites--far from it. Brown, the chief scientist at Xerox and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and Duguid, a historian and social theorist who also works with PARC, measure how information technology interacts and meshes with the social fabric. They write, "Technology design often takes aim at the surface of life. There it undoubtedly scores lots of worthwhile hits. But such successes can make designers blind to the difficulty of more serious challenges--primarily the resourcefulness that helps embed certain ways of doing things deep in our lives."
The authors cast their gaze on the many trends and ideas proffered by infoenthusiasts over the years, such as software agents, "still a long way from the predicted insertion into the woof and warp of ordinary life"; the electronic cottage that Alvin Toffler wrote about 20 years ago and has yet to be fully realized; and the rise of knowledge management and the challenges it faces trying to manage how people actually work and learn in the workplace. Their aim is not to pass judgment but to help remedy the tunnel vision that prevents technologists from seeing larger the social context that their ideas must ultimately inhabit. The Social Life of Information is a thoughtful and challenging read that belongs on the bookshelf of anyone trying to invent or make sense of the new world of information. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysisby Ludwig Von MisesISBN 0913966630 (0-913966-63-0)
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The Theory of Moral Sentimentsby Adam SmithISBN 1573928003 (1-57392-800-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments'Book summary:The foundation for a system of morals, this 1749 work is a landmark of moral and political thought. Its highly original theories of conscience, moral judgment, and virtue offer a reconstruction of the Enlightenment concept of social science, embracing both political economy and theories of law and government.[via]More editions of The Theory of Moral Sentiments:
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A Tract on Monetary Reformby John M. KeynesISBN 1573927937 (1-57392-793-7)
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Wealth of Nationsby Adam SmithISBN 0613920325 (0-613-92032-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wealth of Nations'Book summary:Political economy had been studied long before Adam Smith. But Wealth of Nations (1776) established it for the first time as a separate science. Smith based his arguments on vast historical knowledge, and developed his principles with remarkable clarity. What set this work apart was its statement of the doctrine of natural liberty. Smith believed that "man's self-interest is God's providence" - that if government abstained from interfering with free competition, the invisible hand of capitalism would emerge from the competing claims of individual self-interest. Industrial problems would be resolved and maximum efficiency reached. After more than two centuries, Smith's work still stands as the best statement and defense of the fundamental principles of capitalism. [via]
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The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Alan B. Krueger ; Edited, With Notes and Marginal Summary, by Edwin Cannanby Adam Smith, Andrew S. SkinnerISBN 0140436154 (0-14-043615-4)
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The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causesby Adam SmithISBN 0679424733 (0-679-42473-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes'Book summary:Introduction by Robert ReichCommentary by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich's Introduction both clarifies Smith's analyses and illuminates his overall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes, "Smith's mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as they were in the late eighteenth century-jobs, wages, politics, government, trade, education, business, and ethics." Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
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The Wealth of Nations/Books I-IIIby Adam Smith, Andrew S. SkinnerISBN 0140432086 (0-14-043208-6)
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By pin-pointing the 'division of labour' as a major explanation of economic growth, Adam Smith laid the foundations of economic theory in general and of 'classical' economics in particular. But Andrew Skinner shows in his introduction to this edition that the real sophistication of The Wealth of Nations lies less in its overall picture of a vast analytical system - a capitalist economy - in which all the parts can be seen simultaneously interacting with each other. Moreover, he stresses that Smith's view of society was mot a merely economic one, and that The Wealth of Nations is for from being an apologia for unregulated business enterprise: Smith was at pains to show that economic advance can have undesirable social consequences, and that labour which is economically unproductive can be beneficial to society at large. [via]More editions of The Wealth of Nations/Books I-III:
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Whys of a Philosophical Scrivenerby Martin GardnerISBN 068802064X (0-688-02064-X)
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Recalling such philosophers was Wittgenstein and Arendt, The Whys of Philosophical Scrivener embodies Martin Garner's unceasing interest and joy in the impenetrable mysteries of life.More editions of Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener:
The Wisdom of Adam Smithby Adam Smith, Haggarty, Benjamin A RoggeISBN 0913966223 (0-913966-22-3)
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Wldy Plilosby HeilbronerISBN 0671634828 (0-671-63482-8)
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkersby Robert L. HeilbronerISBN 068486214X (0-684-86214-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers'Book summary:What is economics? It is the science of how man satisfies his unlimited wants and needs with limited resources. This science has had many great innovators, and this book introduces the lives and ideas of several of them: namely Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter. Written at a level accessible to laymen with a high school reading ability, this makes a great introductory work to the history of economic thought. Largely void of equations and graphs; this is not the book to learn about this curve or that curve. However, this is the book to learn about the development of capitalism, financial markets, socialism, globalization, employment policies, welfare economics, etc... Specifically, the six individuals covered in this book span the 1700s thru the 1900s, and contributed mightily to how governments, businesses, and intellectuals thought about the way people and nations make a living. Each of these economist lived in a different age with unique sets of challenges that faced the prevailing world order at that time. Each would produce works of thought that influenced millions of people. This book shows this relationship between each individual, their times, and their contributions to the body of economic thought. The book is laid out in chronological order, so the reader can see how as history changed, man's view of economics change, and likewise, how each economist's publications in turn changed history. Overall a good book; though somehow incomplete. This book deals solely with six economists of the Anglo-Saxon tradition; Europe and the US from the Industrial Revolution onwards. Other parts of the world such as Asia and the Middle East have contributed just as much to world economics; yet they are fully excluded from this book [via]
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Los Porques De Un Escriba Filosofoby Martin GardnerISBN 8472231313 (84-7223-131-3)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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