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Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms
by Smith, Adam
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2013. Legal Classics Library, 2013.. Legal Classics Library, 2013. Smith, Adam [1723-1790]. Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms. Delivered in the University of Glasgow. Reported by a Student in 1763 and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edwin Cannan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2013. xxxix, 293 pp. Octavo (6" x 9"). Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine. $50. * Reprint of the first edition. Better known for his work in economic theory, Smith made equally important contributions to aesthetics, linguistics, psychology, ethics and political science. The present volume reports a series of lectures that reflect Smith's interests in legal theory and political economy. His observations on natural and public jurisprudence, domestic and private law, the administration of the law (i.e. "police"), taxation and legal rights in times of war are especially interesting because they draw on several ideas that would later appear in An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The connection between both of these works is often so clear, in fact, that the editor includes a table of parallel passages.
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- Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms
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