Adam Smith in Our Time, I: Necroeconomics

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Reviews The Other Adam Smith, by Mike Hill and Warren Montag, 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), suggesting the changing political context for its analysis of Smith's "necroeconomic" theory, and discussing briefly the value for Scottish cultural history of interpretative practices developed originally in other national traditions.

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