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Subject(s)

• Classical school of economics [Browse]
• Economics—History [Browse]
• Smith, Adam 1723-1790 [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 95. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 95 [More in this series]

Summary note

This study clarifies the character of 'political economy' as a distinct and separable intellectual discipline in the generic sense, in the texts of Adam Smith. It focuses upon the scope and fundamental conceptualizations of the new science. Smith's conceptualization of economic analysis is shown to constitute a unified intellectual piece for understanding economic society and its dynamics. Smith's fundamental economic language is exhaustively examined, in all his texts, with a view to clarifying the meaning of the basic concepts of his system. As well, the 'prehistories' of those concepts,

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-377) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; A note on citation practice; 1 Introduction; 2 The science of wealth; 3 Competition, prices and distribution; 4 Production and capital accumulation; 5 Opulence and policy; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-04112-8
• 1-134-04113-6
• 1-281-79634-4
• 9786611796341
• 0-203-88957-6

OCLC

• 476182078
• 275162833

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203889572

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