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Subject(s)

• Smith, Adam 1723-1790—Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations [Browse]
• Smith, Adam 1723-1790—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Smith, Adam 1723-1790—Criticism, Textual [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 80 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-160) and index.

Contents

• Reading the Wealth of nations and Smith's other writings
• How does Smith achieve a synthesis in writing? : evidence from his analysis of the propensity to truck, barter and exchange
• Nature's dupes : irony and economic agency in Smith's writing
• The political economy of Castle Rackrent : Maria Edgeworth and Adam Smith
• Exemplification strategy in Adam Smith's Wealth of nations
• A very cautious, or a very polite, Dr. Smith? : hedging in the Wealth of nations
• Natural and human institutions : reading for argumentation in book three of the Wealth of nations
• Adam Smith's construction of 'history' and 'story' : the analysis of primogeniture.

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ISBN

0415336686 (hb : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005022789

OCLC

61229800

International Article Number

• 9780415336680

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