The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau

Contents

Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 one | Rousseau’s Unhappy Vision of Commercial Society 15 two | Smith’s Sympathy with Rousseau’s Critique 51 three | The European Peasant and the Prudent Man 91 four | Progress and Happiness 131 Conclusion 159 References 177 Index 187 contents ...