From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2007 - 13:42:16 EST
> There is my question: are there corne stones in the history of the > reception of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which must be taken in the > account if I wanted to produce a paper on how Smith's work has been used > and misused? > Emma Rothschild focuses on Wm Playfair's annotations as a turning point in the reception of Smith. And for her it was a turn for the worse. I haven't been able to read Giovanni Arrighi's defense of Smith in his Adam Smith in Beijing yet. But he certainly does not think Smith was a bourgeois apologist. Rakesh
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