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An Authentic Account of Adam Smith
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An Authentic Account of Adam Smith Hardcover - 2018

by Kennedy, Gavin

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  • Title An Authentic Account of Adam Smith
  • Author Kennedy, Gavin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 212
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2018-01-19
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 3319638017.G
  • ISBN 9783319638010 / 3319638017
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.56 in (21.01 x 14.81 x 1.42 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.150

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Provides an informed survey of the existing corpus of Smithian studies, as well as a number of suggested original lines of further debate

Though not written as a biography, it often draws on details of Smith's life in order to illustrate an authentic version of his works and the ideas that informed them

Makes extensive use of primary sources on Smith

From the rear cover

This book is a textual criticism of modern ideas about the work of Adam Smith that offers a new perspective on many of his famous contributions to economic thought. Adam Smith is often hailed as a leading figure in the development of economic theories, but modern presentations of his works do not reflect Smith's actual ideas or influence during his lifetime. Gavin Kennedy believes that his name and his legacy were often appropriated or made into myths in the 19th and 20th centuries, with many misconceptions persisting today. Offering new analysis of works on rhetoric, moral sentiments, jurisprudence, the invisible hand and The Wealth of Nations, the book gives a new perspective on this important canonical thinker.

About the author

Gavin Kennedy is Emeritus Professor, Heriot-Watt University, UK, with 33 years teaching experience in economics, defence economics, public finance, and business negotiation, at Brunel, Strathclyde, and Heriot-Watt universities, and has been a visiting lecturer at universities and colleges in Britain, Canada and Australia, and for numerous government departments. He has published widely in defence, business negotiation and classical economics, most recently, Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Adam Smith: A Moral Philosopher and His Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).