272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1974, this is not a ‘life’ of the founder of the science of economics, although it opens with a biographical sketch; nor is it an analysis of The Wealth of Nations , although it contains numerous pointed quotations from it. Rather, it is a presentation of Adam Smith against his background of time and place, eighteenth century Britain on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.... Read more
1. Adam Smith: The Man and his Book 2. ‘Low Life’ in London 3. English Tradesmen 4. ‘Prentice Boys 5. Some London Shopkeepers 6. Country Characters 7. Up and Down the English Roads 8. ‘The Labouring Poor’ 9. The Changing Face of British Industry 10. The Scotland that Adam Smith Knew
Biography
Edgar Royston Pike
