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Adam Smith and the classics : the classical heritage in Adams Smith's thought / Gloria Vivenza.
LIBRA HB103.S6 V57813 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vivenza, Gloria.
- Standardized Title:
- Adam Smith e la cultura classica. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Adam, 1723-1790--Knowledge and learning.
- Smith, Adam.
- Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
- Classical education.
- Economists--Great Britain.
- Economists.
- Great Britain.
- Classicism--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Classicism.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 240 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Summary:
- This book defines the relationship between the thought of Adam Smith and that of the ancients--Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and the Stoics. Vivenza offers a complete survey of Smith's writings to illustrate how classical arguments shaped opinions and scholarship in the eighteenth century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0198296665
- OCLC:
- 46976468
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