The Rule of the Rich? : Adam Smith's Argument Against Political Power / Susan E. Gallagher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallagher, Susan E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.

Smith, Adam.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 141 p. )

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Rule of the Rich provides a historical account of Adam Smith's case for free enterprise. By locating Smith's work within the context of eighteenth-century aristocratic society, this book shows that his defense of the free market system issued not from any devotion to individual liberty, but from his aristocratic conviction that the passion for private gain undermines the integrity of political authority.

Contents:

Commerce and the question, who should rule?

Thanks, but no thanks: Mandeville's defense of court Whig hypocrisy

Bolingbroke's search for a patriot king

Hume's critique of the Whig supremacy

Adam Smith and the end of aristocracy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-135) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585282442

0585282447

OCLC:

45728605