About the Author

About the Author:
Ian Simpson Ross is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Lord Kames and the Scotland of His Day and William Dunbar and the co-editor of The Correspondence of Adam Smith, with E. C. Mossner

Reviews

With a minimum of pedantic intrusions, Ross makes a masterly job not only of putting Smith in the context of his turbulent times, but also of shedding light on his humane subject's wide-ranging contributions to Western thought. |S Kirkus Reviews |d 29/09/1995