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Adam Smith bio recalls moralistic beginnings
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Economics has become a big deal in book publishing of late. Forget
the manuals on dieting and dating that usually clutter nonfiction
lists. Right now, works such as "Freakonomics" are scoring well in
the charts.
So you might think the time is ripe for a fresh look at the
founder of the dismal science, Adam Smith. Right on cue comes James
Buchan's "The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas," a finely
written and thankfully short biography of the great Scottish economic
theorist, whic...
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The Myth of Adam Smith.(Review)
Southern Economic Journal
; By Salim Rashid. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp. X, 227. $80.00. For every economist who has ever idolized Adam Smith or wished they could be more like him, Salim Rashid's The Myth of Adam Smith is the valuable antidote. Rashid is unusual among economists in that he really does not care
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Book review: Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty: Forever king of the economics class
The Scotsman
; Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty by James Buchan Profile Books, 145pp, GBP 14.99 IF YOU WERE A REGULAR walker on the Salisbury Crags high above Edinburgh on crisp mornings during the early 1780s, you would be familiar with two earnest gentlemen whose passion was examining the geology
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The ambitious, accommodative Adam Smith. (18th century Scottish economist and free trade advocate)
Independent Review
; If the cause of liberty needs saints to be made palatable, then the arguments for liberty may be in deep trouble. Unmindful of this point, biographies of Adam Smith suggest that any attack on the saintliness of Smith's character sullies the case for economic liberty. (The writings of the late
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Book review: Adam Smith And The Pursuit Of Perfect Liberty: Invisible hand just out of reach
Scotland on Sunday
; Adam Smith And The Pursuit Of Perfect Liberty James Buchan Profile, GBP 14.99 ADAM Smith is a philosopher more written about than read these days. In the past few years, a veritable industry has grown up, revealing what the works of this great Scottish thinker actually say. Of course, this is
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Turning to Adam Smith. (publications on life and works of political economist)
Atlantic Economic Journal
; Introduction The recent publication of Ian Simpson Ross's long-awaited Life of Adam Smith (being the closing step of the Oxford bicentennial Glasgow edition of the works and correspondence of Adam Smith) affords the proper opportunity for some reconsideration of Smith's thought and analysis,
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