Adam Smith's Discourse: Canonicity, Commerce and Conscience - Softcover

Brown, Vivienne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041509593X ISBN 13: 9780415095938

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

This book develops the existing analyses of the founder of free market economics, and gives it a radical new extension by taking into account recent debates in literary theory.

About this title

About the Author:

Vivienne Brown teaches Economics at the Open University.

Review:

"Vivienne Brown examines Smith's works without presuming that authorial intent will suffice to give us the key to several texts. She also questions whether it is enough to place those texts in their eighteenth century context without asking how they can be read as texts. Instead, she takes as a starting point the proposition that meaning is constructed in the process of reading, and tries to identify the discursive framework most appropriate to each text. The result is an utterly fresh treatment that is at once both unsettling and delightful."
-Neil De Marchi, Duke University
"This reading of Smith surely turns economic history on its end. Despite what many readers will find challenging conclusions, this book is lively reading for anyone interested in Smith, and forces us to rethink our most beloved conclusions about his work. [P.H.W. in Book Notes]."

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 041509593X
• ISBN 13: 9780415095938
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256