Introduction 1. Reading Adam Smith's Discourse 2. Signifying Voices: Reading the Adam Smith problem 3. The Dialogic Experience of Conscience 4. TMS and the Stoic Moral Hierarchy 5. Justice and Jurisprudence 6. The emergence of The Wealth of Nations 7. The System of Natural Liberty 8. Conclusion: Commerce and conscience References
Vivienne Brown
"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]."
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