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Product Description: Adam Smith (1723-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions. He is best known as the author of the An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). Yet his work is name-checked more often than it is read and then typically it is of an uninformed nature; that he is an apologist for capitalism, a forceful promoter of self-interest, a defender of greed and a critic of any 'interference' in market transactions...read more
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9780199605064 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 12, 2013, cover price $185.00
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9780198753032 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 28, 2016, cover price $50.00 | also contains The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith | About this edition: Adam Smith (1723-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions.
A definitive exposition of a key idea shaping the world we know todayThe most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation. Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, and charts the contemporary debates and tensions between Enlightenment thinkers that this idea raised.
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9780748645329 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, July 31, 2013, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: A definitive exposition of a key idea shaping the world we know todayThe most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation.
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9781474404716 | Reprint edition (Edinburgh Univ Pr, May 1, 2015), cover price $39.95
Product Description: Insider Strategies to Plan for Medicaid, Veterans Benefits and Long-term Care and How to Help Your Loved One to Live With Peace and Dignity The Caregiverâs Legal Guide to Caring for a Loved One with Chronic Illness was written by a Certified Elder Law Attorney to help seniors, veterans and their families navigate the long-term care legal maze...read more
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9781599324180 | 1 edition (Advantage Media Group, July 18, 2014), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Insider Strategies to Plan for Medicaid, Veterans Benefits and Long-term Care and How to Help Your Loved One to Live With Peace and Dignity The Caregiverâs Legal Guide to Caring for a Loved One with Chronic Illness was written by a Certified Elder Law Attorney to help seniors, veterans and their families navigate the long-term care legal maze.
Product Description: In this compelling and accessible account of the life and thought of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), Professor Christopher J. Berry of the University of Glasgow argues that the belief in the uniformity of human nature was at the heart of Hume's thought...read more
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9780826429803 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 7, 2009), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: In this compelling and accessible account of the life and thought of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), Professor Christopher J.
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9781441131232 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 17, 2013, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In this compelling and accessible account of the life and thought of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), Professor Christopher J.
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9781441167859 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, May 15, 2009, cover price $700.00
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9780748608645 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $57.95
Product Description: In this far-ranging and innovative study Christopher Berry explores the meanings and ramifications of the idea of luxury. Insights from political theory, philosophy and intellectual history are utilized in a sophisticated conceptual analysis that is complemented by a series of specific historical investigations...read more
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9780521454483 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In this far-ranging and innovative study Christopher Berry explores the meanings and ramifications of the idea of luxury.
Paperback:
9780521466912 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $39.99
Product Description: In contrasting manners and customs in "barbarous" and "civilized" societies, the Aberdonian academic James Dunbar (1742-1798) engaged in one of the principal debates of the Scottish Engligtenment. First published in 1780, the "Essays" were praised, among others, by Samuel Johnson...read more
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9781855063396 | Thoemmes Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: In contrasting manners and customs in "barbarous" and "civilized" societies, the Aberdonian academic James Dunbar (1742-1798) engaged in one of the principal debates of the Scottish Engligtenment.
Hardcover:
9780312019709 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 1, 1989, cover price $45.00
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9780391034341 | Humanities Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $45.00 | also contains Dry Bones
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9780391034334 | Humanities Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $15.00
Product Description: This is both a modest and a presumptuous work. It is presumptuous because, given the vast literature on just one of its themes, it attempts to discuss not only the philosophies of both Hume and Hegel but also something of their intellectual milieu...read more
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9789024726820 | Kluwer Academic Pub, February 1, 1983, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This is both a modest and a presumptuous work.
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9789400975903 | Springer Verlag, November 5, 2011, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This is both a modest and a presumptuous work.
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