Adam Smith: Optimist or Pessimist? 
Subtitle: A New Problem Concerning the Teleological Basis of Commercial Society
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781840149012
Subjects: Biography: general; Capitalist or free market economies; Economic theory & philosophy; Political economy; Social & political philosophy; c 1700 to c 1800; Great Britain; Economics - Theory; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Teleology; Politics/International Relations; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Smith, Adam; Capitalism; General; 1723-1790; Economists; Smith, Adam,
First sentence: I will argue below that Smith presents two apparently conflicting cases within his corpus of works, and notably within his two major works: the Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (WN).