Sue Faulkner, Jim McLoughlin and Stanislaw Owsiak
Ashgate
Hardback
234
1999
'Adam Smith, Optimist or Pessimist?' provides the first full-length treatment of a tension in the work of Smith. This problem has various manifestations and it has fundamental consequences for understanding his thought. The author explains two contradictory cases within the corpus of Adam Smith's writings: Smith argues for and against teleology and for and against a best regime.
Ashgate
Hardback
234
1999
'Adam Smith, Optimist or Pessimist?' provides the first full-length treatment of a tension in the work of Smith. This problem has various manifestations and it has fundamental consequences for understanding his thought. The author explains two contradictory cases within the corpus of Adam Smith's writings: Smith argues for and against teleology and for and against a best regime.