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James Buchan

James Buchan’s books include Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money, Crowded with Genius and, most recently, Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty.

Selected bibliography

  • Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty (2006)
  • Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh’s Moment of the Mind (2003)
  • Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World (2003)
  • A Good Place to Die (1999)
  • Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money (1997)
  • Heart’s Journey in Winter (1995)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content That sh—te Creech · 5 April 2007

  • The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in 18th-Century Britain, Ireland and America by Richard Sher  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Nostalgia for the Vestry · 30 November 2006

My Hogs · 18 October 2001

11 September · 4 October 2001

subscriber-only content Only a Hop and a Skip to Money · 16 November 2000

  • The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter Bernstein

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Still Smoking · 15 October 1998

  • An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati by Ali Rahnema