After Adam Smith
Subtitle: a century of transformation in politics and political economy
By: Murray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson.
Contributors: Stimson, Shannon C.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780691140377
Subjects: Economics -- Political aspects -- History; Classical school of economics -- History
Description: "After Adam Smith' looks at how politics & political economy were articulated & altered in the century following the publication of Smith's 'Wealth of Nations."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Adam Smith's political odyssey; title: The rise and fall of civil society; title: Economic life and political life; title: The economic machine and the invisible hand; title: The figure of Smith; title: Population and political economy; title: Utility, property, and political participation; title: Economic opinion on parliamentary reform; title: Utopias and stationary states; title: Labour defended; title: Individual liberty and the liberty of trade; title: Two critiques of classical political economy.