Wealth and Virtue
Subtitle: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment
Contributors: Istvan Hont (Editor); Michael Ignatieff (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780521233972
Subjects: Social & political philosophy; Scotland; 18th century; Philosophy / General; Philosophy, Scottish; Economics; Intellectual History; Enlightenment; History
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.