Adam Smith Reconsidered (eBook)

History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics

Paul Sagar (Autor)

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2022
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23493-9 (ISBN)

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A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink himand why he mattersAdam Smith has long been recognized as the father of modern economics. More recently, scholars have emphasized his standing as a moral philosopherone who was prepared to critique markets as well as to praise them. But Smith's contributions to political theory are still underappreciated and relatively neglected. In this bold, revisionary book, Paul Sagar argues that not only have the fundamentals of Smith's political thought been widely misunderstood, but that once we understand them correctly, our estimations of Smith as economist and as moral philosopher must radically change.Rather than seeing Smith either as the prophet of the free market, or as a moralist who thought the dangers of commerce lay primarily in the corrupting effects of trade, Sagar shows why Smith is more thoroughly a political thinker who made major contributions to the history of political thought. Smith, Sagar argues, saw war, not commerce, as the engine of political change and he was centrally concerned with the political, not moral, dimensions ofand threats tocommercial societies. In this light, the true contours and power of Smith's foundational contributions to western political thought emerge as never before.Offering major reinterpretations of Smith's political, moral, and economic ideas, Adam Smith Reconsidered seeks to revolutionize how he is understood. In doing so, it recovers Smith's original way of doing political theory, one rooted in the importance of history and the necessity of maintaining a realist sensibility, and from which we still have much to learn.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.4.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Admiration • Aggression • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Analytic frame • Approbation • arbitration • Aristotelianism • bidding • bribery • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • chessboard • city-state • Colonialism • Competition (economics) • Conjectural history • Consideration • Consumer Capitalism • contentment • Corruption • county court • critique • David Hume • Decision-Making • Deliberation • demagogue • despotism • dichotomy • discourse on inequality • Division of Labour • Duty • east indies • Economic Development • Economic Inequality • Economic planning • Economic Power • Economics • Edinburgh Review • Edition (book) • egotism • Enemy of the People • Epicureanism • Essay • ethics • Expense • false consciousness • Feeling • fee tail • Fellow traveller • feudalism • fixing • flattery • Francis Fukuyama • From the Ground Up (book) • Government Debt • greatness • Greeks • Gross Domestic Product • Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) • hostility • Husbandman • Institution • Insurgency • Intellectual history • invisible Hand • Ipso facto • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • J. G. A. Pocock • Judiciary • Jurisprudence • Lecture • Liberalism • meanness • mercantilism • Military Dictatorship • Military justice • military occupation • Mode of Production • Modernity • Montesquieu • Moral Economy • Morality • Motivation • Mountaineering • Multitude • Nation • Nation of shopkeepers • New Laws • Nomenclature • Obedience (human behavior) • obstacle • On Liberty • Oppression • Optimates • Oxford University Press • Person • phenomenon • Philip Pettit • Philosopher • philosophical analysis • Philosophy • Physiocracy • pity • Planned economy • Polemic • Political Economy • Political Freedom • Political Philosophy • Politics • populares • popular sovereignty • Prediction • prima facie • Princeton University Press • Principle • Profession • Quentin Skinner • Racism • Rationality • reason • religious fanaticism • Republicanism • Republican liberalism • result • Romanticism • Routledge • Rule of Law • Ruler • sans-culottes • Scottish Enlightenment • Scythia • Sedition • Self-Interest • Selfishness • self-love • Senseless Violence • Sharing • Shopping addiction • Slavery • Socialist calculation debate • Social Science • Sophistication • Spite (sentiment) • state actor • State of nature • stupidity • Subversion • Suggestion • Sumptuary law • Superiority (short story) • Sympathy • tax basis • Teacher • tenant farmer • The Communist Manifesto • The Fable of the Bees • theory • The Public Interest • The Spirit of the Laws • The Wealth of Nations • Thomas Hobbes • Thought • tradesman • Understanding • Unintended Consequences • unrest • warfare • Wealth • Whiggism • Zeroing (trade)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23493-0 / 0691234930
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23493-9 / 9780691234939