Adam Smith in His Time and Ours

Counter to the popular impression that Adam Smith was a champion of selfishness and greed, Jerry Muller shows that the Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations maintained that markets served to promote the well-being of the populace and that government must intervene to counteract the negative effects of the pursuit of self-interest. Smith's analysis went beyond economics to embrace a larger "civilizing project" designed to create a more decent society.

• Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment (Modern European Philosophy)
• Why Read Marx Today?
• The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought
• Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics
• Adam Smith: Father of Economics
• On Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations": A Philosophical Companion
• Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
• Microeconomics and Behavior (Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Economics)
• Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
• The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings (Hackett Classics)