Adam Smiths Reise nach Frankreich oder die Entstehung der Nationalokonomie (Die Andere Bibliothek, Band 335) [German]

AB Die Andere Bibliothek, 2012. Hardcover. New/New. 0x0x0. [ADAM SMITH]. Blomert, Reinhard. "Adam Smiths Reise nach Frankreich oder die Entstehung der Nationalokonomie (Die Andere Bibliothek, Band 335)[German]." AB Die Andere Bibliothek; 2012. Hardcover in slipcase. Text in German. New. ISBN: 9783847703358. "The failure of contemporary neoliberalism: the rediscovery of Adam Smith's true utopia in France. This is how national economy becomes vivid: Less than three decades before the revolution, Adam Smith travels from Glasgow to France. The well-known professor of moral philosophy accompanies a young Scottish nobleman on an educational journey. They visit Voltaire in Geneva; Adam Smith observes the pre-revolutionary reforms in Toulouse and Paris, meets politicians, scientists and the representatives of the French Enlightenment: the "Economists" - and last but not least the ladies of the Paris salons who adored him. In his large, narrative book, Reinhard Blomert makes tangible what has hitherto been kept silent in literature: The legendary main work of the founder of classical national economy, Der prosperity of the nations, published in 1776 and soon translated into German, owes its existence to these French experiences. And above all: the author of the theory of ethical feelings admired by Immanuel Kant did not turn into the amoral economist of today's market fundamentalism. The image of the father of laissez-faire capitalism from an invisible hand is nothing but the ideological projection of our day.