The Science of Wealth
Book description
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…
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1 author picked The Science of Wealth as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I first read Aspromourgos’s book on Adam Smith in 2010 or thereabouts.
I was immediately hooked because of the attention to detail visible in his interpretation of Smith’s economics. And the rigour and depth of his writing.
The book places Smith’s economics within a rich historical context by paying close attention to his economic vocabulary.
Aspromourgos diligently provides us with a persuasive account of Smith’s economic theory in the tradition of classical political economy and rightly argues that it cannot be viewed as an inferior version of marginalist economics.
In this book, you will find not just Smith’s economics and…
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