Evaluating Adam Smith : creating the Wealth of nations
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Evaluating Adam Smith : creating the Wealth of nations
(Routledge studies in the history of economics, 80)
Routledge, 2006
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-160) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Adam Smith is well recognized as the forefather of modern economics, but his success can be attributed not only to what he wrote but also to his use of language. In this exciting new book, Willie Henderson shows how Smith engaged creatively in writing about the economy, and analyzes the extent to which he tried to ensure that the reader is drawn into the text and informed by it.
Demonstrating analysis methods that are helpful to new researchers on Smith's works, Evaluating Adam Smith sets his work in the cultural context of the eighteenth century and explores the lexical and conceptual inter-relations between Smith and the sources he consulted. Issues explored include Smith's use of irony and his work in the context of wealth, virtue and happiness as presented in the Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations.
Henderson's informative study employs the literary techniques of close reading and close textual analysis and applies them to sustained passages of Smith's writing.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Reading the Wealth of Nations and Smith's Other Writings 2. How does Smith Achieve a Synthesis in Writing? 3. Nature's Dupes: Irony and Economic Agency in Smith's Writing 4. The Political Economy of Castle Rackrent: Maria Edgeworth and Adam Smith 5. Exemplification Strategy in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations 6. A Very Cautious, or a Very Polite, Dr. Smith? Hedging in the Wealth of Nations 7. Natural and Human Institutions: Reading for Argumentation in Book Three of the Wealth of Nations 8. Adam Smith's Construction of History and Story: The Analysis of Primogeniture
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