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Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

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  • © 2005

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  1. Gavin Kennedy

    1. Edinburgh, UK

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Table of contents (57 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Man

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Smith’s Family Background

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 3-5

    3. Disease of the Learned

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 6-11

    4. His ‘Juvenile Work’

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 12-17

    5. Bad Days at Balliol

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 18-22

    6. A Game of Great Skill

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 23-27

    7. His Strategic Allegiance

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 28-31

    8. Professor Smith!

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 32-35

  3. Impartial Spectators

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-38
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    2. The Religious Climate

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 39-42

    3. On Benevolence

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 43-47

    4. A Poem about a Louse

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 48-51

    5. The Impartial Spectator

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 52-56

    6. The Looking Glass

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 57-60

    7. Social Cohesion

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 61-65

    8. The Ends of Nature

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 66-69

  4. Impartial Jurists

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-73
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    2. Justice as a Negative Virtue

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 74-77

    3. Constitutional Monarchy

      • Gavin Kennedy
      Pages 78-80
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About this book

In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political economy and his lectures on Jurisprudence. The book provides a new analysis of Wealth of Nations , and argues that Adam Smith's intellectual legacy was completely transformed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries by economists pursuing different agendas, to create ideas and policies that Smith did not advocate. It also provides a new explanation for the main mysteries about Smith's later life.

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'A fresh look at Smith's moral philosophy, its links to his political economy and his lectures on jurisprudence.' - The Scots Magazine

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  • Edinburgh, UK

    Gavin Kennedy

About the author

GAVIN KENNEDY is Professor and Director of Contracts at Edinburgh Business School, Herio-Watt University. Previously Professor of Defence Finance, he has authored several books on defence finance and published widely in negotiation processes.

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