Review
"'Concise, elegant and sympathetic...he has done Smith a service' Spectator 'The perfect celebration of a man who did so much to alter modern economic thinking' Daily Telegraph 'Crisp and enjoyable... a mastery of the little details' Financial Times Magazine"
Product Description
The new face of the £20 note, Adam Smith was long ago adopted as the father of a neo-conservative economic ideology, not least by Thatcher and Reagan. More recently New Labour has tried to kidnap him as an ancestor. In a vigorous and informal book James Buchan shows that Smith fits no modern political category. As befits the most accessible of all philosophers, this biography does entirely without jargon.
About the Author
James Buchan is a leading novelist and historian. His philosophy of money, Frozen Desire (1997) won the Duff Cooper Award. His most recent work is a study of the circle of Adam Smith and David Hume in Enlightenment Edinburgh, Capital of the Mind (2003). He lives in Norwich.
