Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society
By (Author) Jerry Z. Muller
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
3rd October 1995
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
330.153
Physical Properties
Paperback
263
Width 197mm, Height 254mm
425g
Description
'Muller's great accomplishment in this book is to present a clear, thoughtful, and engaging overview of Adam Smith's thought. He reveals Smith to be a wide-ranging and innovative thinker who formulated a comprehensive social science.' - Peter McNamara, The Review of Politics.
Reviews
"A profoundly erudite and timely study."--John Gray, National Review "Muller's great accomplishment in this book is to present a clear, thoughtful, and engaging overview of Adam Smith's thought. He reveals Smith to be a wide-ranging and innovative thinker who formulated a comprehensive social science."--Peter McNamara, The Review of Politics
Author Bio
Jerry Z. Muller is Associate Professor of History at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Other God That Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism (Princeton).
