Individual in Society: Papers on Adam Smith

<p>Adam Smith's <em>Wealth of Nations</em> has been among the world books for over two hundred years and has gathered a mythology which does scant justice to the actual book. One reason for this was that the <em>Wealth of Nations</em> was one of a series of studies through which Smith hoped to complete his system of moral social and natural philosophy.<br><br><em>The Individual in Society</em> illustrates this system especially in relation to Smith's other major work The Theory of Moral Sentiments and examines its relation to the <em>Wealth of Nations.</em> Included are:<br> * Chapters on the views of important commentators such as Zeyss Eckstein Jacob Viner and James Bonar<br> * Discussion of the ethical and sociological background of Smith's work and its influence on the thought of the next century.</p>