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Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian

An Interpretation for the 21st Century

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  • © 2006

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  1. Iain McLean
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. The Life of an Absent-minded Professor

    • Iain McLean
    Pages 1-26

  3. A Weak State and a Weak Church

    • Iain McLean
    Pages 27-45

  4. A Non-religious Grounding of Morals: Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

    • Iain McLean
    Pages 46-59

  5. Merriment and Diversion: Smith on Public Finance and Public Choice

    • Iain McLean
    Pages 60-81

  6. The Invisible Hand and the Helping Hand

    • Iain McLean
    Pages 82-99

  7. The French and American Smiths

    • Iain McLean
    Pages 100-119

  8. Adam Smith Today

    • Iain McLean
    Pages 120-149

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 150-172
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About this book

Iain McLean reexamines the radical legacy of AdamSmith, arguing that Smith was a radical egalitarian and that his work supported all three of the slogans of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity. McLean suggests that Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments , published in 1759, crystallized the radically egalitarian philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment. This book brings Smith into full view, showing how much of modern economics and political science is in Smith. The author locates Smith's heritage firmly within the context of the Enlightenment, while addressing the international links between American, French, and Scottish histories of political thought.

About the author

IAIN MCLEAN is Offical Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College and Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, UK.

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