Adam Smith on the Ancients and the Moderns

<p>The classics heavily influenced many aspects of European modern culture yet it is not easy to trace their intellectual power on any author. In this volume Gloria Vivenza takes on the impressive task of examining how philosophy history literature politics and ethics all played a part in shaping Adam Smith’s thought as a scholar philosopher and economist.</p><p>This book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in the history of economic thought the history of philosophy moral philosophy political theory and the Enlightenment.</p>