9. Adam Smith and a New Public Imagination

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Moral Resistance to Capitalism: A Brief Overview 7
5. PART I. THE GLORIES AND MISERIES OF MARKETIZATION
6. 2. Economic Liberties and Human Rights 17
7. 3. Smart Consequentialism: Kantian Moral Theory and the (Qualified) Defense of Capitalism 32
8. 4. “Getting and Spending, We Lay Waste Our Powers”: On the Expanding Reach of the Market 68
9. 5. Five Pillars of Decent and Dynamic Societies 85
10. 6. Higher Education and American Capitalism Today 96
11. PART II. NON-WESTERN CAPITALISM
12. 7. Dharma, Markets, and Indian Capitalism 121
13. 8. The Great Enrichment Came and Comes from Ethics and Rhetoric 136
14. 9. Adam Smith and a New Public Imagination 167
15. PART III. REVISITING LOCKE, MONTESQUIEU, AND SMITH
16. 10. Capitalism and the Moral Sentiments 191
17. 11. Markets and Morality in the Enlightenment: Neglected Aspects of Montesquieu’s Case for Commerce 209
18. CONTRIBUTORS 235
19. INDEX 237
20. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 249