Verfasst von:	Sagar, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Adam Smith reconsidered
Titelzusatz:	history, liberty, and the foundations of modern politics
Verf.angabe:	Paul Sagar
Verlagsort:	Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford
Verlag:	Princeton University Press
E-Jahr:	2022
Jahr:	[2022]
Umfang:	xii, 229 Seiten
Format:	25 cm
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	0-691-21083-7
	978-0-691-21083-4
Abstract:	Acknowledgements --Abbreviations to Adam Smith's Works --Introduction --Commercial Society, History, and the Four Stages Theory --Domination, Liberty, and the Rule of Law --Smith and Rousseau, after Hume and Mandeville --Whose Corruption, Which Polity? --The Conspiracy of the Merchants --Conclusion --Index.
	"A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him--and why he matters. Adam Smith has long been recognized as the father of modern economics. More recently, scholars have emphasized his standing as a moral philosopher--one who was prepared to critique markets as well as to praise them. But Smith's contributions to political theory are still underappreciated and relatively neglected. In this bold, revisionary book, Paul Sagar argues that not only have the fundamentals of Smith's political thought been widely misunderstood, but that once we understand them correctly, our estimations of Smith as economist and as moral philosopher must radically change. Rather than seeing Smith as either the prophet of the free market, or as a moralist who thought the dangers of commerce lay primarily in the corrupting effects of trade, Sagar shows why Smith is more thoroughly a political thinker who made major contributions to the history of political thought. Smith, Sagar argues, saw war, not commerce, as the engine of political change and he was centrally concerned with the political, not moral, dimensions of--and threats to--commercial societies. In this light, the true contours and power of Smith's foundational contributions to western political thought emerge as never before. Offering major reinterpretations of Smith's political, moral, and economic ideas, Adam Smith Reconsidered seeks to revolutionize how he is understood. In doing so, it recovers Smith's original way of doing political theory, one rooted in the importance of history and the necessity of maintaining a realist sensibility, and from which we still have much to learn."
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780691210834.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(p)Smith, Adam    / (s)Politisches Denken
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Sagar, Paul: Adam Smith reconsidered. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 229 pages)
RVK-Notation:	CF 8217
Sach-SW:	Political and social views
	Political science
	History
Geograph. SW:	Great Britain
K10plus-PPN:	1804250058