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Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish
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Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment Hardcover - 1984

by Istvan Hont (Editor); Michael Ignatieff (Editor)


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Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement of the eighteenth century and explores the process by which the boundaries between economic thought, jurisprudence, moral philosophy and theoretical history came to be established. Dealing not only with major figures like Hume and Smith, there are also studies of lesser known thinkers like Andrew Fletcher, Gershom Carmichael, Lord Kames and John Millar as well as of Locke in the light of eighteenth century social theory, the intellectual culture of the University of Edinburgh in the middle of the eighteenth century and of the performance of the Scottish economy on the eve of the publication of the Wealth of Nations. While the scholarly emphasis is on the rigorous historical reconstruction of both theory and context, Wealth and Virtue directly addresses itself to modern political theorists and economists and throws light on a number of major focal points of controversy in legal and political philosophy.

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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.

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  • Title Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment
  • Author Istvan Hont (Editor); Michael Ignatieff (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 381
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date January 27, 1984
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521233972 / 0521233976
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.94 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 2.39 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Scotland - Intellectual life - 18th century, Enlightenment - Scotland
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83001898
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.094
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