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Jaar | 2012 |
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ISBN | 978 1 84022 688 1 |
Pagina's | 974 |
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Adam Smith (723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of
the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry
into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his
most important book. First published in London in March
1776, it had been eagerly anticipated y Smith’s
contemporaries and became an immediate bestseller. That
edition sold out quickly and others followed. Today, Smith’s
Wealth of Nations rightfully claims a place in the Western
intellectual canon. It is the first book of modern political
economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of
that discipline. But it is much more than that. Along with
important discussions of economics and political theory,
Smith mixed plain common sense with large measures of
history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and much else.
Few texts remind us so clearly that the Enlightenment was
very much a lived experience, a concern with improving the
human condition in practical ways for real people. A
masterpiece by any measure, Wealth of Nations remains a
classic of world literature to be usefully enjoyed by readers
today.
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Taal | |
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Jaar | 2012 |
Auteur | |
ISBN | 978 1 84022 688 1 |
Pagina's | 974 |
Uitgeverij |