Andrew Stewart Skinner
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198233343
- eISBN:
- 9780191678974
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198233343.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
The second edition of this guide to Adam Smith's system of thought has been fully updated to reflect recent developments in Smith scholarship and the author's experience of teaching Smith to a ...
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The second edition of this guide to Adam Smith's system of thought has been fully updated to reflect recent developments in Smith scholarship and the author's experience of teaching Smith to a student audience. The material from the first edition has been extensively rewritten, and four new chapters have been added, covering Smith's essays on the exercise of human understanding, and his relationship to Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Sir James Steuart. The book places Smith's system of social, and moral, science firmly within the context of contemporary British and Continental intellectual history, dealing in particular detail with the founders of the Scottish Enlightenment and with the French Physiocrats. The essays explore Smith's own reception among his peers and successors. The chapters in this volume have been developed from a lecture course on ‘The Age and Ideas of Adam Smith’, taught to senior undergraduate and graduate students in political economy.Less
The second edition of this guide to Adam Smith's system of thought has been fully updated to reflect recent developments in Smith scholarship and the author's experience of teaching Smith to a student audience. The material from the first edition has been extensively rewritten, and four new chapters have been added, covering Smith's essays on the exercise of human understanding, and his relationship to Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Sir James Steuart. The book places Smith's system of social, and moral, science firmly within the context of contemporary British and Continental intellectual history, dealing in particular detail with the founders of the Scottish Enlightenment and with the French Physiocrats. The essays explore Smith's own reception among his peers and successors. The chapters in this volume have been developed from a lecture course on ‘The Age and Ideas of Adam Smith’, taught to senior undergraduate and graduate students in political economy.
Carla J. Mulford
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199384198
- eISBN:
- 9780199384211
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199384198.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 18th Century and Early American Literature
Chapter 7 takes up about 1769 to 1775, important years in the evolution of Franklin’s ideas about three matters: that agriculture rather than commerce was the foundation of a nation’s well-being; ...
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Chapter 7 takes up about 1769 to 1775, important years in the evolution of Franklin’s ideas about three matters: that agriculture rather than commerce was the foundation of a nation’s well-being; that constitutional reform was essential to the colonies’ political status as part of the British Empire; and that British North American defense and commerce needed to be free of intervention by Crown, ministry, and Parliament. Franklin’s ideas about the potential self-sufficiency of the colonies developed into a theory that embraced constitutional monarchy. Franklin’s turn against the British Empire reached clear articulation in 1771, after Franklin toured Ireland. In thinking about legal opinions being rendered about British India, Franklin groped toward an opinion regarding British Americans’ original sovereignty over their colonies—thus denying the British nation’s jurisdiction over American lands—and conceived that lands in North America acquired peacefully from the Native peoples there belonged to the new possessors alone.Less
Chapter 7 takes up about 1769 to 1775, important years in the evolution of Franklin’s ideas about three matters: that agriculture rather than commerce was the foundation of a nation’s well-being; that constitutional reform was essential to the colonies’ political status as part of the British Empire; and that British North American defense and commerce needed to be free of intervention by Crown, ministry, and Parliament. Franklin’s ideas about the potential self-sufficiency of the colonies developed into a theory that embraced constitutional monarchy. Franklin’s turn against the British Empire reached clear articulation in 1771, after Franklin toured Ireland. In thinking about legal opinions being rendered about British India, Franklin groped toward an opinion regarding British Americans’ original sovereignty over their colonies—thus denying the British nation’s jurisdiction over American lands—and conceived that lands in North America acquired peacefully from the Native peoples there belonged to the new possessors alone.
