Books, Arts & Manners: The Moral Base of the Free Economy

Adam Smith: The Man and His Works By E. G. West

Arlington House, 215 pp., $5.00 “One may well wonder,” Professor West observes toward the close of this well-written biography, “why America has not rejoiced in Adam Smith more than it has done.” It is an interesting question. Smith by all accounts is the pre-eminent philosopher of democratic capitalism, yet even in the halcyon days of laissez faire in America relatively little attention was paid to the