On Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations": A Philosophical Companion

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On Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations": A Philosophical Companion By Samuel Fleischacker Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 329. $39.50 cloth, $19.95 paperback.

Adam Smith's writings have recently undergone a revolution. For almost two centuries, Smith was hailed as the Founding Father of capitalism, with his 1776 Wealth of Nations (hereafter WN) a manifesto for private property, free trade, and free markets. Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, however, several scholars claimed to discover that Smith was not really a classical liberal after all, but more like a ...

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