{"product_id":"adam-smith-book-jesse-norman-9780141987118","title":"Adam Smith","description":"'A superb book' Financial Times, Books of the Year  Adam  Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and  the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really  thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely  contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and the freedom of  the individual? Or a prime mover of 'market fundamentalism' and an  apologist for inequality and human selfishness? Or something else  entirely? Jesse Norman's brilliantly conceived \\book gives us not just  Smith's economics, but his vastly wider intellectual project. Against  the turbulent backdrop of Enlightenment Scotland, it lays out a succinct  and highly engaging account of Smith's life and times, reviews his work  as a whole and traces his influence over the past two centuries.  But  this book is not only a biography. It dispels the myths and debunks the  caricatures that have grown up around Adam Smith. It explores Smith's  ideas in detail, from ethics to law to economics and government, and the  impact of those ideas on thinkers as diverse as Karl Marx, Charles  Darwin, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek. Far from being simply  an economist, Adam Smith emerges as one of the founders of modern social  psychology and behavioural theory. Far from being a doctrinaire  'libertarian' or 'neoliberal' thinker, he offers a strikingly modern  evolutionary theory of political economy, which recognises the often  complementary roles of markets and the state.  At a time when  economics and politics are ever more polarized between left and right,  this book, by offering a Smithian analysis of contemporary markets,  predatory capitalism and the 2008 financial crash, returns us to first  principles and shows how the lost centre of modern public debate can be  recreated. Through Smith's work, it addresses crucial issues of  inequality, human dignity and exploitation; and it provides a compelling  explanation of why he remains central to any attempt to defend, reform  or renew the market system.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49507465527569,"sku":"GOR009987604","price":29.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729051590929,"sku":"NGR9780141987118","price":30.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50914590687505,"sku":"GOR010080123","price":19.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52332026298641,"sku":"NLS9780141987118","price":30.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53240135352593,"sku":"GOR012397427","price":15.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0141987111.jpg?v=1751434847","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/adam-smith-book-jesse-norman-9780141987118","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}