Elucidates Adam Smith's vision of the free market economy, placing it in its historical perspective. The author discusses how Smith should be read, and outlines the hermeneutical model of interpretation in his economic thought. He examines the relevance of Smith's economics in the modern world.

Provides a new hermeneutical model for interpreting Adam Smith's contribution to economic science. Elucidates Smith's vision of the free market economy by placing it in the context of the moral philosophy and the debate on the sense and meaning of the emerging commercial society which was taking place in the 18th century, and discusses the relevance of reinterpreting Smith's economics as part of moral philosophy for today's debates on principles of economics.

An Adam Smith Renaissance Anno 1976
a contextual approach to "The Wealth of Nations"
mutual sympathy and commerce
the invisible hand and mutual sympathy
Adam Smith and the crisis of modern economics.