The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau

Pennsylvania State University Press (2008)
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In this first book-length comparative study of these leading eighteenth-century thinkers, Dennis Rasmussen highlights Smith's sympathy with Rousseau's concerns and analyzes in depth the ways in which Smith crafted his arguments to defend ...

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9780271033488   9780271045764   0271045760   0271033495   0271033487   9780271035093

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10.1515/9780271035093

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Introduction

One Rousseau’s Unhappy Vision of Commercial Society

Two Smith’s Sympathy with Rousseau’s Critique

Three The European Peasant and the Prudent Man

Four Progress and Happiness

Conclusion

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