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Adam Smith bio recalls moralistic beginnings

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From: Columbia Daily Tribune
Date: 20060617
Author:MATTHEW LYNN

Economics has become a big deal in book publishing of late. Forget the manuals on dieting and dating that usually clutter nonfiction lists. Right now, works such as "Freakonomics" are scoring well in the charts.

So you might think the time is ripe for a fresh look at the founder of the dismal science, Adam Smith. Right on cue comes James Buchan's "The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas," a finely written and thankfully short biography of the great Scottish economic theorist, which comes out in hardcover in the United States on Aug. 21.

There's one snag: Buchan's thesis is that Smith was ...

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