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Economic Sentiments – Adam Smith, Condorcet & the Enlightenment: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment Hardcover – 8 Jun. 2001

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In a recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their day, with important consequences for our own. Her work alters the readings of Adam Smith and Condorcet - and of ideas of enlightenment - that underlie much contemporary political thought. This text takes up late-18th-century disputes over the political economy of an enlightened, commercial society to show us how the "political" and the "economic" were intricately related to each other and to philosophical reflection. Rothschild examines theories of economic and political sentiments, and the reflection of these theories in the politics of enlightenment.

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"...a bracing, illuminating analysis... " -- The Financial Times, 29 December 2001

"A lucid and historical account of one of the finest achievements of the European Enlightenment..." -- The Economist, 20 December 2001

...Rothschild's book, Economic Sentiments, examines the enlightenment of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the roles played by Smith and the Marquis de Condorcet, the French mathematician, social philosopher and economist. -- The Sunday Times, 22 July 2001

Rothschild has a wealth of knowledge at her command and wields it effortlessly... -- The Economist, 17 August 2001

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press (8 Jun. 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 366 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674004892
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674004894
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 3.18 x 23.5 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 1,701,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 2,986 in Economic Theory & Philosophy
- 3,273 in Academic Philosophy
- 4,957 in Economic History (Books)

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Emma Rothschild is Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. She is Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics.

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cynthia.campbell@oslo.online.no

Informative, Liberal, Inspiring

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 August 2001

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This is the best re-presentation of Adam Smith that I have read. It was inspiring to find him placed in the context of the late eighteenth century, shorn of the reactionary readings that have plagued his memory in later periods. Condorcet I knew less well, but he too is fascinating.

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