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Adam smith biography phillipson fishing

          Phillipson's is an intellectual biography – the history of Smith's startling ideas – carefully developed over his lifetime and their germination.

        1. Phillipson's is an intellectual biography – the history of Smith's startling ideas – carefully developed over his lifetime and their germination.
        2. In late eighteenth-century Britain, Adam Smith was the most influential thinker to offer advice on fisheries policy.
        3. A useful lateth century biography of Adam Smith which was based upon research undertaken at the University of Glasgow.
        4. In late eighteenth-century Britain, Adam Smith was the most influential thinker to offer advice on fisheries policy.
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          6. A useful lateth century biography of Adam Smith which was based upon research undertaken at the University of Glasgow..

          Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

          This fascinating intellectual biography of Adam Smith dramatically rewrites the economist’s life and offers new insight into his iconic concepts
          The great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (1723–90) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics.

          Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. This biography shows the extent to which Smith's great works, The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of one of the most ambitious projects of the Euruopean Enlightenment, a grand “Science of Man" that would encompass law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics, and which was only half complete on Smith’s death in 1790.Nick Phillipson reconstructs Smith’s intellectual ancestry and shows what Smith took from, and what he gave to, in the rapidly changing intellectual