Adam Smith
A Very Short Introduction

This is a wonderful introduction to Adam Smith's career as an academic and writer. Many interesting points are made in the book, one of which is that Adam Smith is only mentioned once in the book 'A Very Short Introduction to Economics' in the same series, so perhaps his importance as an economicist......more

A short biography of famous economist. The man described sounds really interesting and did some great work, but this book was very bland. Reading time one hour.......more

The professor of political philosophy, Christopher J. Berry, wrote an introduction to the writings of Adam Smith. Smith lived between 1723 and 1790. The book contains a portrait of Smith by the caricaturist John Kay from when Smith died (Berry xvii). I read the book on my Kindle. The book has a sect......more

There is not a lot known about Adam Smith's life, so this book mainly analyzes his writing. He was not just an economist, or even primarily an economist. He was an Enlightenment Era philosopher who thought about the world from his very comfortable and academic position in life. There's nothing wrong......more

I don't usually like to read non-fiction BUT I must say that this book made a valiant effort to be interesting. I had decided to study Adam Smith for this personal project of mine and I needed a crash course on economics. This novel did the work, providing historical context, a succinct overview on A......more