Speaker
Jennifer Pitts
(University of Chicago)
Description
The Wealth of Nations presents a bleak picture of the prospects for well-informed public deliberations in commercial society. This paper reads the book as a work of political pedagogy, in which Smith encourages his readers to recognize themselves as a public and reflect on the diversity of perspectives that might equip them to make better moral and political judgments.
Primary author
Jennifer Pitts
(University of Chicago)
