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The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society : Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau /
Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worri...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Rousseau's unhappy vision of commercial society
- Smith's sympathy with Rousseau's critique
- The European peasant and the prudent man
- Progress and happiness
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.