The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Illustrated dj, clear mylar cover. xi, 193 pages. Contents: Introduction -- Rousseau's unhappy vision of commercial society -- Smith's sympathy with Rousseau's critique -- The European peasant and the prudent man -- Progress..... More