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Study Adam Smith to solve crisis, Chirac told
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JACQUES Chirac should study Adam Smith to solve the growing
cultural crisis in France, American historian Arthur Herman will
argue in a lecture next month.
The French President has admitted the recent spate of rioting in
his country has highlighted a crisis of identity.
Herman, the author of How the Scots Invented the Modern World,
will argue that the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment has the
ideas and principles to revitalise France.
In the Sir William Gillies Lecture at the Royal Scottish Academy,
Herman will say that both France and Scotland shared in the
Enlightenment. But where in ...
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