Wealth and Virtue
Subtitle: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment
Contributors: Istvan Hont (Editor); Michael Ignatieff (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 28, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521312141
Subjects: Social & political philosophy; History; Philosophy; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; General; Philosophy / General; Europe - Great Britain - General
First sentence: No clear definition of the identity of political economy in eighteenth-century Scotland can be given unless an account is offered of the central questions which Adam Smith was trying to answer when he wrote the Wealth of Nations.