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Iain McLean

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Adam Smith, Markets, and Virtues

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By Ryan Hanley, Iain McLean, James Halteman
| The Montreal Review Verified
Gains and losses; costs and benefits. Thinking in these terms comes naturally to most of us today. And for this we largely have economists to thank. The language of trade-offs that we all know so well is profoundly indebted to what has been called "the economic way of thinking," and particularly its emphasis on the ways in which opportunity costs shape our individual efforts to pursue self-interest and maximize our utility. But not all economists understand costs and benefits in the same way.
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Adam Smith, radical and egalitarian

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By Iain McLean
| The Montreal Review Verified
*** ADAM SMITH, RADICAL AND EGALITARIAN *** By Iain McLean *** The Montréal Review, July 2011 *** "Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian: An Interpretation for the 21st Century" by Iain McLean (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) *** A few years ago, I published a book with this title (1), responding to a question posed by Gordon Brown. Brown, then the UK's finance minister and later Prime Minister, comes from the same small Scottish town as Adam Smith - Kirkcaldy in Fife, north of Edinburgh.
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Governing England: English Identity and Institutions in a Changing United Kingdom

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By Michael Kenny, Iain McLean, Akash Paun, Arthur Aughey
| britishacademy.universitypressscholarship.com
Michael Kenny, Iain McLean, and Akash Paun Print publication date: 2019 ISBN: 9780197266465 Publisher: British Academy Google Preview England is ruled directly from Westminster by institutions and parties that are both English and British. The non-recognition of England reflects a long-standing assumption of ‘unionist statecraft’ that to draw a distinction between what is English and what is British risks destabilising the union state.
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