In the shadow of Adam Smith
By: Donald Rutherford
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer; Red Globe Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780230252103
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory; Economics; Liberty; History
Description: "Using a large number of Scottish writers the themes of are all discussed. The distinctive Scottish contribution to the clash between natural liberty and socialist ideas is set out"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: Trade as the Foundation of Economic Prosperity; title: Trade and the Nature of the Exchange Economy; title: Trade and Value; title: Money and its Function; title: Money and Banking; title: Public Finance and the Functions of Government; title: Public Finance and Taxation; title: Public Finance and the National Debt; title: The Condition of the People - Population; title: The Condition of the People - Property Rights and Rent; title: The Condition of the People - Profits and Wages; title: The Condition of the People - Poverty and the Poor Laws; title: The Condition of the Economy: The Theory of Economic Growth; title: The Condition of the Economy - Economic Development; title: Economic Ideology - Natural Liberty or Socialism; title: Conclusions and Bibliographies.