Adam Smith in His Time and Ours

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ISBN: 9780691001616 | 0691001618
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/3/1995

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Counter to the popular impression that Adam Smith was a champion of selfishness and greed, Jerry Muller shows that theInquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsmaintained that markets served to promote the well-being of the populace and that government must intervene to counteract the negative effects of the pursuit of self-interest. Smith's analysis went beyond economics to embrace a larger "civilizing project" designed to create a more decent society.

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Introduction: Back to Adam?	p. 1
Adam Smith in His Time
Cosmopolitan Provincial: Smith's Life and Social Milieu	p. 15
Gentlemen, Consumers, and the Fiscal-Military State	p. 28
Self-Love and Self-Command: The Intellectual Origins of Smith's Civilizing Project	p. 39
Designing the Decent Society
The Market: From Self-Love to Universal Opulence	p. 63
The Legislator and the Merchant	p. 77
Social Science as the Anticipation of the Unanticipated	p. 84
Commercial Humanism: Smith's Civilizing Project	p. 93
"The Impartial Spectator"	p. 100
The Historical and Institutional Foundations of Commercial Society	p. 113
The Moral Balance Sheet of Commercial Society	p. 131
The Visible Hand of the State	p. 140
Applied Policy Analysis: Smith's Sociology of Religion	p. 154
"A Small Party": Moral and Political Leadership in Commercial Society	p. 164
From Smith's Time to Ours
Critics, Friendly and Unfriendly	p. 177
Some Unanticipated Consequences of Smith's Rhetoric	p. 185
The Timeless and the Timely	p. 194
Notes	p. 206
Guide to Further Reading	p. 240
Acknowledgments	p. 262
Index	p. 265
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