Commerce and Strangers in Adam Smith

• Main Author: Nohara, Shinji (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Economic history.; Political science.; International economics.; Economic policy.; Economics.; Economic growth.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Political Science.; International Economics.; Political Economy/Economic Systems.; Economic Growth.

This book offers unique insights into how Adam Smith understood globalization, and examines how he incorporated his knowledge of the world and globalization into his classical political economy. Although Smith lived in society that was far from globalized, he experienced the beginning of globalizati...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Travel literature and the Enlightenment world
• Fellows an strangers in The Theory of Moral Sentiments
• Adam Smith on the cyclicity of the rise and fall of civilization
• Smith on money and the impact of encountering strangers on Europe
• Adam Smith on markets
• Encountering the world in The Wealth of Nations
• Conclusion.