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Title: Saving Adam Smith: A Tale of Wealth, Transformation, and Virtue by Jonathan B. Wight ISBN: 0-13-065904-5 Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 29 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Economics for Real Life
Comment: All anyone ever hears about Adam Smith concerns his Wealth of Nations, everywhere from Economics class to movies like "A Beautiful Mind." This book is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Adam Smith as a person and about what he really thought. Instead of dry biography, this book brings Adam Smith and his theories about economics and society directly into today's world. The story is funny and the characters are interesting and likeable; the novel makes the economic theories relatively painless. I've heard that a true economist is someone who sees something work in real life and wonders if it would work in theory; I think it's important for people to learn that this icon of economics was more complicated than that, and because of that I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Review of Adam Smith
Comment: I read Saving Adam Smith because the author, Dr. Jonathan Wight, was coming to my school as a visiting author. I did not know anything about Adam Smith or economics before I read it, but I learned about markets, economy and self interest v. greed. I thought the book was easy to read and I was surprised to understand the economic theory in the book. I liked the adventerous plot that kept me intested. I liked the storyline about the drive across country and all the trouble they got into. It was a fun book to read.
Rating: 1
Summary: Move over , Rover
Comment: I bought & read this book because of the good reviews; I want to save others from making a similar mistake. Eliminate the component which is nothing more than an introductory lecture on Adam Smith, & what is left is the worst fiction that I have ever had the misfortune to read. The protagonist is an obsolescent Wally Cleaver with a taste for drambouie. He feels the need to drive cross-country & rent a cabin in Yosemite in order to finish the last chapter of a dissertation -- in spite of impending deadlines. He needs to recuperate for several days whenever he has done something really arduous like driving in a car for more than 3 hours, and is jealous when his girlfriend (also exhausted after having made an arduous plane flight) kisses the snout of his barking dog, Rex. Has anyone ever kissed the snout of a barking dog? Has anyone ever felt jealous about it? If you have, then this is the book for you! And to think (I'm being optimistic) that the author only required a sabbatical, 4 years, & the assistance of hundreds -- simply amazing.
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Title: The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance by Russell Roberts ISBN: 0262681358 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism Updated Edition by Russell D. Roberts ISBN: 0130870528 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.60 |
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Title: A Deadly Indifference by Marshall Jevons ISBN: 0691059691 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 27 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons ISBN: 0691000980 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 12 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Literary Book of Economics: Including Readings from Literature and Drama on Economic Concepts, Issues, and Themes by Michael Watts ISBN: 1932236023 Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Inst Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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