Who’s afraid of Adam Smith? : How the market got its soul

In the course of his argument, Dougherty follows Adam Smith’s ideas through several generations of economic thought, from nineteenth-century economic philosophers such as Alfred Marshall, who maintained a focus on moral sentiments while extending the field’s technical reach, to twentieth-century gia...

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Main Author: Dougherty, Peter J.
Format: Book
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Published: New York John Wiley & Sons 2002
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Summary:In the course of his argument, Dougherty follows Adam Smith’s ideas through several generations of economic thought, from nineteenth-century economic philosophers such as Alfred Marshall, who maintained a focus on moral sentiments while extending the field’s technical reach, to twentieth-century giants such as John Maynard Keynes, Paul Samuelson, and Milton Friedman, whose analytical economics have served to defend and expand market democracy.