Needs and justice in the Wealth of Nations: an introductory essay

Istvan Hont; Michael Ignatieff

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511625077.002

Needs and justice in the Wealth of Nations: an introductory essay

Istvan Hont
, Michael Ignatieff

University of Cambridge

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No clear definition of the identity of political economy in eighteenth-century Scotland can be given unless an account is offered of the central questions which Adam Smith was trying to answer when he wrote the Wealth of Nations. This in turn requires that we should be able to understand the relation between Smith's concerns as a moral philosopher, as a professor of jurisprudence and as a political economist.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Wealth and Virtue
Subtitle of host publication	The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment
Editors	Istvan Hont, Michael Ignatieff
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	1-44
Number of pages	44
ISBN (Print)	9780521233972
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511625077.002
State	Published - 1983
Externally published	Yes

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Scottish Enlightenment
Political economy

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