This text analyzes the influence that Adam Smith's philosophy had on his "Wealth of Nations" and reveals the unity in Smith's system of morals, politics and economics. It concludes that Smith was motivated by moral liberalism.

Of interest to economists, philosophers, political theorists, sociologists and lawyers concerned with jurisprudence, this book is clearly written, and its innovations reveal the hitherto hidden unity in Smith's overarching system of morals, politics and economics.