Abstract
Reviews a wide-ranging new American study of the Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith (1723-1790), examining its treatment of Smith as critic and rhetorical theorist, as well as of his better-known writings on moral philosophy in his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and economic theory in The Wealth of Nations (1776), and discusses briefly the value for Scottish cultural history of interpretative practices developed originally in other national traditions, concluding that the book is "important for scholars of 18th century Scottish literature... because it approaches Smith’s work through disciplinary practices that are common enough in other literary fields but not as commonly applied in this detail to non-literary Scottish texts."
Recommended Citation
Scott, Patrick G.
(2016)
"Adam Smith for Our Time, I: Necroeconomics,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 42:
Iss.
1, 116–118.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol42/iss1/9
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