1st Edition
The Science of Wealth Adam Smith and the framing of political economy
By Tony Aspromourgos
Copyright 2009
416 Pages
by
Routledge
420 Pages
by
Routledge
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.... Read more
1 Introduction, 2. The Science of Wealth, 3. Competition, Prices and Distribution, 4. Production and Capital Accumulation, 5. Opulence and Policy, 5. Epilogue
Biography
Tony Aspromourgos is Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney and is the author of On the Origins of Classical Economics: Distribution and Value from William Petty to Adam Smith, also published by Routledge.
