Capitalism As a Moral System: Adam Smith's Critique of the Free Market Economy
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781852784423 (1852784423)
Publish date: August 28th 1991
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
This careful exposition of Adam Smith's major and minor works shows that Smith actually had severe misgivings about the moral desirability of the system of capitalism. Capitalism as a moral system troubled and disturbed him, but he nevertheless came out in favor of capitalism, because1) the system o...