Wealth and Virtue The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment

Wealth and Virtue reassesses the Scottish Enlightenment's contribution to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement of the eighteenth century and explores the process by which the boundaries between economic thought, jurisprudence, moral philosophy and theoretical history were established.Hont, Istvan is the author of 'Wealth and Virtue The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment', published 1986 under ISBN 9780521312141 and ISBN 0521312140.