A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist.
Jesse Norman is the Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire. He read classics at Oxford and completed a masters and a doctorate in Philosophy from University College London. Before entering politics, he ran an educational project working in Communist Eastern Europe, and was a director at Barclays. He has been an Honorary Fellow at UCL, a Governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. His previous books include a celebrated study of Edmund Burke.
This splendid book not only presents an excellent introduction to
the life and ideas of Adam Smith, but also explains why - and how -
Smith's insights can help us solve some of the most difficult
social and economic problems of the contemporary world. Smith loved
lucidity and relevance, and I think he would have been very happy
with Norman's book. -- Amartya Sen
Masterly ... amid the superficiality and hysterics of modern
British politics, an admirably thoughtful brain is lurking --
Edward Lucas * The Times *
An important work of revisionist biography with a direct and
important impact on the intellectual underpinnings of liberal
free-market thought -- Oliver Letwin * Telegraph *
Superb ... Norman succeeds in demonstrating the coherence and
subtlety of Adam Smith's thought -- Martin Wolf * Financial Times
(Books of the Year) *
A remarkable and intensely readable book ... a rejoinder to those
who fear that the intellectual has disappeared from politics --
John Kay * Financial Times *
This book is well-written, well-argued and intensely
thought-provoking, and it will rightly raise Smith's posthumous
reputation -- Simon Heffer * Spectator *
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