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Adam Smith - What He Thought and Why It Matters by Jesse Norman
Category: Business
A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent ad ...Show more
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why It Matters by Jesse Norman
Category: Business
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 pr ...Show more
Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman
Category: Non-Fiction
Both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have never been more relevant than in today's 'Big Society', as MP Jesse Norman explains. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke is both the greatest and most under-rated political thinker of the past three-hundred years ...Show more
Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings by Edmund Burke; Jesse Norman (Editor)
Category: History
"Amid the 18th century s golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon, Burke s controversial mixture of conservative and subversive theories made him first a marginal figure, and finally a revered theorist a hero of the Romantics. He warned of the effects o ...Show more
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