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A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist.

About the Author

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.

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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
*The Times*

An important work of revisionist biography with a direct and important impact on the intellectual underpinnings of liberal free-market thought
*Telegraph*

Superb ... Norman succeeds in demonstrating the coherence and subtlety of Adam Smith's thought
*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
*Financial Times*

This book is well-written, well-argued and intensely thought-provoking, and it will rightly raise Smith's posthumous reputation
*Spectator*

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