Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society - Hardcover

Muller, Jerry Z.

 
9780029222348: Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0029222346 ISBN 13: 9780029222348
Verlag: The Free Press, 1992

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In recent years Adam Smith has been championed by advocates of the market economy. This book analyzes Smith's economic and political thought, and concludes that far from subscribing to unregulated self-interest, Smith believed the market should operate in tandem with socially improving institutions. Muller shows how the "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" was as much as anything a warning against the threat posed to the common good by organized mercantile interest. Smith was interested not just in how wealth was created, but how it could be used to build a decent society. It is this aspect of his thought, argues Muller, which has been ignored by those who use his writings to further their own ideological interests.

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In recent years Adam Smith has been championed by advocates of the market economy. This book analyzes Smith's economic and political thought, and concludes that far from subscribing to unregulated self-interest, Smith believed the market should operate in tandem with socially improving institutions. Muller shows how the "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" was as much as anything a warning against the threat posed to the common good by organized mercantile interest. Smith was interested not just in how wealth was created, but how it could be used to build a decent society. It is this aspect of his thought, argues Muller, which has been ignored by those who use his writings to further their own ideological interests.

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Verlag
The Free Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0029222346
ISBN 13 
9780029222348
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
180
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