Drawing on extensive written records of the thought of John Adams and Adam Smith, the father of modern capitalism, Dr. John E. Hill argues that these two great men advocated a balanced, values-based, and just political economy.
Aims to challenge common interpretations of the political thought of Adams and Smith. This study provides scholars and students with a different portrait of social and political theory in America, at its founding and at the inception of the twenty-first century.
Adam Smith’s sociable market has been contorted into a free market; Christian love has become selfish individualism; John Adams’ fear that elite... Læs mere
This book examines Adam Smith’s main principles in Wealth of Nations as the basis for effective policymaking. Free market interpretations of Smith, the book argues, grossly misrepresent his thought, emphasizing only liberty and not also equality and justice.
This book examines Adam Smith’s main principles in Wealth of Nations as the basis for effective policymaking. Free market interpretations of Smith, the book argues, grossly misrepresent his thought, emphasizing only liberty and not also equality and justice.