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.
Isobel Grundy
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198187653
- eISBN:
- 9780191674730
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187653.003.0031
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
The most exciting arrivals in spring 1758 were unexpected: Sir James Steuart and his wife. This, though spelled differently, was the Butes’ surname: it made Lady Mary ‘fly’ to call on them. She ...
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The most exciting arrivals in spring 1758 were unexpected: Sir James Steuart and his wife. This, though spelled differently, was the Butes’ surname: it made Lady Mary ‘fly’ to call on them. She addressed her call, as social protocol prescribed, to Lady Frances Steuart. It was friendship at first sight. In Sir James, Lady Mary found a man of learning and wide European culture, who was writing an important study in political economy. Lady Frances was ‘more Aimable than the fairest of her Sex’. The problem, however, was that the Steuarts were Jacobites. Sir James was now, like Lord Mar before him, an exile, excluded by name from the 1747 Act of Indemnity.Less
The most exciting arrivals in spring 1758 were unexpected: Sir James Steuart and his wife. This, though spelled differently, was the Butes’ surname: it made Lady Mary ‘fly’ to call on them. She addressed her call, as social protocol prescribed, to Lady Frances Steuart. It was friendship at first sight. In Sir James, Lady Mary found a man of learning and wide European culture, who was writing an important study in political economy. Lady Frances was ‘more Aimable than the fairest of her Sex’. The problem, however, was that the Steuarts were Jacobites. Sir James was now, like Lord Mar before him, an exile, excluded by name from the 1747 Act of Indemnity.
Iain McLean
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623525
- eISBN:
- 9780748672110
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623525.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This chapter elaborates the posthumous reputation for Adam Smith as a hammer of the French Revolution. Smith's policy advice shows him to be no friend of the American colonies. But in other respects, ...
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This chapter elaborates the posthumous reputation for Adam Smith as a hammer of the French Revolution. Smith's policy advice shows him to be no friend of the American colonies. But in other respects, his moral philosophy and economic theory was to be of great help to them. The Navigation Acts had made the fortune of Glasgow after the Act of Union, and therefore in a sense had made Smith's own career. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were those who created the institutions of the United States. Jefferson's career was entwined with Madison's throughout their lives. Jefferson and Madison believed that the foundation of the state should be the ‘virtuous farmer’. Alexander Hamilton followed Sir James Steuart rather than Smith. Smith was probably an enemy of the French Revolution. Many of the generation of intellectuals who understood and admired Smith were depleted in the Revolution.Less
This chapter elaborates the posthumous reputation for Adam Smith as a hammer of the French Revolution. Smith's policy advice shows him to be no friend of the American colonies. But in other respects, his moral philosophy and economic theory was to be of great help to them. The Navigation Acts had made the fortune of Glasgow after the Act of Union, and therefore in a sense had made Smith's own career. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were those who created the institutions of the United States. Jefferson's career was entwined with Madison's throughout their lives. Jefferson and Madison believed that the foundation of the state should be the ‘virtuous farmer’. Alexander Hamilton followed Sir James Steuart rather than Smith. Smith was probably an enemy of the French Revolution. Many of the generation of intellectuals who understood and admired Smith were depleted in the Revolution.
Murray Pittock
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748627561
- eISBN:
- 9780748653461
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748627561.003.0015
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
This chapter returns to the question of whether '45 can be said to have had ‘national’ quality. It notes that the idea that Jacobites were improvers (Mackintosh of Borlum, Lockhart), economists (John ...
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This chapter returns to the question of whether '45 can be said to have had ‘national’ quality. It notes that the idea that Jacobites were improvers (Mackintosh of Borlum, Lockhart), economists (John Law, Sir James Steuart), ecumenists (Alexander, Lord Forbes, George Flint), significant Enlightenment thinkers (Andrew Ramsay), or nationalists has been slow to penetrate the general historiography of the eighteenth century, despite the work of Frank McLynn, Paul Monod, Allan Macinnes, and many others. It observes that in the Jacobite era, divergent political goals are held to imply ‘backwardness’, though this is demonstrably inapplicable in many cases.Less
This chapter returns to the question of whether '45 can be said to have had ‘national’ quality. It notes that the idea that Jacobites were improvers (Mackintosh of Borlum, Lockhart), economists (John Law, Sir James Steuart), ecumenists (Alexander, Lord Forbes, George Flint), significant Enlightenment thinkers (Andrew Ramsay), or nationalists has been slow to penetrate the general historiography of the eighteenth century, despite the work of Frank McLynn, Paul Monod, Allan Macinnes, and many others. It observes that in the Jacobite era, divergent political goals are held to imply ‘backwardness’, though this is demonstrably inapplicable in many cases.
