Endless Uncertainty
Colin Kidd: Adam Smith’s Legacy, 19 July 2001
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment
by Emma Rothschild.
Harvard, 366 pp., £30.95, June 2001,0 674 00489 2 Show More
by Emma Rothschild.
Harvard, 366 pp., £30.95, June 2001,
“... when he was invoked by Tom Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft, and his outlook was decried by Edmund Burke. By 1800 his ‘subversive’ persona had been marginalised. Under loyalist pressure, Dugald Stewart, whose celebrated memoir was read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh at the time of the Scottish sedition trials of 1793, rehabilitated Smith ... ”