{"product_id":"adam-smith-an-enlightened-life-9780300177671","title":"Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (172390) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics. 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 biography shows the extent to which Smiths great works  The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments  were part of one of the most ambitious projects of the Euruopean Enlightenment  a grand Science of Man\" that would encompass law  history  and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics  and which was only half complete on Smiths death in 1790. Nick Phillipson reconstructs Smiths intellectual ancestry and shows what Smith took from  and what he gave to  in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh as they entered the great years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all he explains how far Smiths ideas developed in dialogue with those of his closest friend  the other titan of the age  David Hume.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67948117426229,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300177674","price":32.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300177671.jpg?v=1794399917","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/adam-smith-an-enlightened-life-9780300177671","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}