Professor Smith said: “Adam Smith loved books, and he used the library he assembled to research his famous works. Smith was a careful reader and these annotations show that he was a close reader ...

"Smith Adam." Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2001 ... of Smith's ethical and economic theories. Smith was appointed professor of logic in 1751 and then professor of moral philosophy in 1752 ...

Given this zeitgeist, a book on the moral philosophy of Adam Smith is timely indeed. While Smith may be the founder of modern economics, he was first and foremost a professor of moral philosophy. Yet ...

Ryan Patrick Hanley is Professor of Political Science at Boston College ... A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of ...