Iain McLean reexamines the radical legacy of AdamSmith, arguing that Smith was a radical egalitarian and that his work supported all three of the slogans of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity. McLean suggests that Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments , published in 1759,...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- A Note on Citations -- Preface: A Scotsman Looks at the World -- 1. The Life of an Absent-minded Professor -- 2. A Weak State and a Weak Church -- 3. A Non-religious Grounding of Morals: Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment -- 4. Merriment and Diversion:...

Aims to show that Adam Smith (1723-90), the author of "The Wealth of Nations", was not the promoter of ruthless laissez-faire capitalism that is frequently depicted. Smith's "right-wing" reputation was sealed after his death when it was not safe to claim that an author may have influenced the...