Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author ofThe Wealth of Nationsand the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the Invisible Hand of the market and that It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist, and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. This book, by one of the leading scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, shows the extent to whichThe Wealth of Nationsand Smiths other great work,The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand Science of Man, one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, which was to encompass law, history and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics.]]> Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:12:14 +0000 es Copyright 202 6BiblioEteca Technologies SL