@article{309793,
      recid = {309793},
      author = {Buchan, James. and Buchan, James.},
      title = {The authentic Adam Smith : his life and ideas /},
      publisher = {Atlas Books :},
      address = {New York, N.Y. :},
      pages = {ix, 198 p. ;},
      year = {2006},
      note = {"Originally published in Great Britain under the title:  Adam Smith and the pursuit of perfect liberty"--T.p.  verso.},
      abstract = {Author Buchan breathes new life into Adam Smith's legacy  and the beginnings of modern economics. Scottish  philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by  neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated  business and small government. Politicians such as Thatcher  and Reagan promoted his famous 1776 book The Wealth of  Nations as the bible of laissez-faire economics. In this  accessible book, Buchan refutes much of what modern  politicians and economists claim about Adam Smith and shows  that, in fact, Smith transcends modern political  categories. He demonstrates that The Wealth of Nations and  Smith's 1759 masterpiece, The Theory of Moral Sentiments,  are brilliant fragments of one of the most ambitious  philosophical enterprises ever attempted: the search for a  just foundation for modern commercial society both in  private and in public. In an increasingly crowded and  discontented world, this search is ever more urgent.--From  publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/309793},
}