Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. (Books in review: illuminating the enlightenment). (book review)
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Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment By Emma Rothschild. Harvard University Press, 353 pages, $45.00
SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT THE Enlightenment? Yes, you should, and more than a little, says Emma Rothschild, the distinguished British economist. In Economic Sentiments, Rothschild reinterprets the Enlightenment by breathing new life into Adam Smith, Jacques Turgot, and a fellow named Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, somewhat better known as the marquis de Condorcet.
Smith is the most famous of these, of course, and the most politically ...
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