Introduction

Eli P Cox

Chapter 1 in Seeking Adam Smith:Finding The Shadow Curriculum of Business, 2017, pp 1-5 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This story describes my 15-year intellectual journey in search of Adam Smith’s authentic views concerning economics and public policy. It began when I chose An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations for my nighttime reading. I had just read and reread Patrick O’Brian’s 20-volume historical fiction about a British navy captain and his ships’ surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars and was looking for something else. I had become a mature reader undertaking tasks beyond my abilities as a younger person, so I took up the copy of Wealth of Nations I had purchased 50 years earlier but had tried and failed to read on several occasions…

Keywords: Financial Crises; United States; Corporations; Moral and Ethical Aspects; Business Education; Business Ethics; Economics-Moral and Ethical Aspects; Adam Smith (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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