The Other Adam Smith : Popular Contention, Commercial Society, and the Birth of Necro-Economics

An account of Adam Smith that explores how his minor and major writings together constitute a comprehensive-if highly contestable-system of thought, this book looks at Smith's writing on knowledge, affect, sociability and government, and political economy in order to challenge both the old view of Smith as a narrow market fundamentalist and the new orthodoxy that casts him as a champion of self-restraint and the architect of humanized markets.