Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

1. Front Matter

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2. The Man

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Smith’s Family Background

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      Pages 3-5

   3. Disease of the Learned

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   4. His ‘Juvenile Work’

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      Pages 12-17

   5. Bad Days at Balliol

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      Pages 18-22

   6. A Game of Great Skill

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      Pages 23-27

   7. His Strategic Allegiance

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   8. Professor Smith!

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      Pages 32-35

3. Impartial Spectators

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-38

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   2. The Religious Climate

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      Pages 39-42

   3. On Benevolence

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      Pages 43-47

   4. A Poem about a Louse

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      Pages 48-51

   5. The Impartial Spectator

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   6. The Looking Glass

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      Pages 57-60

   7. Social Cohesion

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      Pages 61-65

   8. The Ends of Nature

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      Pages 66-69

4. Impartial Jurists

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-73

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   2. Justice as a Negative Virtue

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   3. Constitutional Monarchy

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In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political economy and his lectures on Jurisprudence. The book provides a new analysis of Wealth of Nations , and argues that Adam Smith's intellectual legacy was completely transformed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries by economists pursuing different agendas, to create ideas and policies that Smith did not advocate. It also provides a new explanation for the main mysteries about Smith's later life.

• Adam Smith
• economics
• employment
• industrial revolution
• trade
• Wealth of Nations

'A fresh look at Smith's moral philosophy, its links to his political economy and his lectures on jurisprudence.' - The Scots Magazine

• Edinburgh, UK

  Gavin Kennedy

GAVIN KENNEDY is Professor and Director of Contracts at Edinburgh Business School, Herio-Watt University. Previously Professor of Defence Finance, he has authored several books on defence finance and published widely in negotiation processes.

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