Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters by Jesse Norman vegan by his own account

by his own account

a bestselling Dutch historian

and the different ways in which societies imagine their place in the world

the subject of Ellen Pao's high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit

Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters by Jesse Norman vegan by his own accountAdam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and the freedom of the individual? Or a prime mover of 'market fundamentalism' and an apologist for inequality and human selfishness? Or something else entirely? Jesse Norman's brilliantly