Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith
- Hont, Istvan
- Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2015
Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society ...