The Rhetoric of Tenses in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations

The Rhetoric of Tenses in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
Author: Hye-Joon Yoon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2017-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 900435686X

The Rhetoric of Tenses in Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations” examines the tenses of the predicates in the famous and typical passages of the monumental work to explore the intricacies of the rhetoric and argument they support, paying particular attention to the question of temporality. Smith’s subtle modulation of language attests to his reluctance to offer a mere theory of economics and to his refusal to ignore the complicated challenges history and actuality offer to his beliefs in the natural system of liberty. The theoretical frame of the book is derived from the grammarians of Smith’s age, in particular James Harris. The supple interdisciplinary approach of this book invites literary and publishing histories to converse with intellectual history.

A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith

A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith
Author: Hiroshi Mizuta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315476150

This critical bibliography of Adam Smith takes as its starting point the Kress Library of Business and Economics’ 1939 catalogue of its Vanderblue Collection of Smithiana. Since the bicentenary of The Wealth of Nations in 1976, the rate of international publication markedly accelerated, significantly extending the scope of this bibliography beyond 1939. Its scope has been further enlarged via the inclusion of essays on the diffusion process while the inclusion of all works in the chronological main bibliography gives an overview of the scope of this process. The notes appended to the entries provide a running commentary to the gathering pace of publication and the entries are organised chronologically with systematic annotation throughout.