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'A superb book' Financial Times, Books of the Year
AdamSmith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' andthe most influential economist who ever lived. But what he reallythought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercelycontested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and the freedom ofthe individual? Or a prime mover of 'market fundamentalism' and anapologist for inequality and human selfishness? Or something elseentirely? Jesse Norman's brilliantly conceived \book gives us not justSmith's economics, but his vastly wider intellectual project. Againstthe turbulent backdrop of Enlightenment Scotland, it lays out a succinctand highly engaging account of Smith's life and times, reviews his workas a whole and traces his influence over the past two centuries.
Butthis book is not only a biography. It dispels the myths and debunks thecaricatures that have grown up around Adam Smith. It explores Smith'sideas in detail, from ethics to law to economics and government, and theimpact of those ideas on thinkers as diverse as Karl Marx, CharlesDarwin, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek. Far from being simplyan economist, Adam Smith emerges as one of the founders of modern socialpsychology and behavioural theory. Far from being a doctrinaire'libertarian' or 'neoliberal' thinker, he offers a strikingly modernevolutionary theory of political economy, which recognises the oftencomplementary roles of markets and the state.
At a time wheneconomics and politics are ever more polarized between left and right,this book, by offering a Smithian analysis of contemporary markets,predatory capitalism and the 2008 financial crash, returns us to firstprinciples and shows how the lost centre of modern public debate can berecreated. Through Smith's work, it addresses crucial issues ofinequality, human dignity and exploitation; and it provides a compellingexplanation of why he remains central to any attempt to defend, reformor renew the market system.
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This book is well-written, well-argued and intensely thought-provoking, and it will rightly raise Smith's posthumous reputation