Lecture 3. Adam Smith (1723-1790)


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The nature, causes and consequences of the Enlightenment and its relation to changes in eighteenth century Europe. The foundations of all the social sciences.

R.H.Campbell and A.S.Skinner, Adam Smith (1982)
Macfarlane, Riddle, chs.5-8
Ronald Meek, Social Science and the Ignoble Savage (1976)
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776; various editions), vol 1, Book I (chs. 1-10), Book III.


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