This work seeks to explore the ethical dimension of economic citizenship in Anglo-American finance. It engages with ethical debates about the place of finance in people's everyday lives and the place of ordinary people in making finance what it is: the visible hands that make a market.
'At a moment when political economists of global financeare largely preoccupied with, and frustrated by, the post-crisis regulatory response, Chris Clarke's original intervention looks to Adam Smith to bring ethical relations and everyday politics to the centre of critical inquiry.' - Paul Langley, Durham University, UK
'Clarke's original and important analysis shows how Adam Smith can help transcend the narrow economistic foundations of not just contemporary financial governance but also much IPE scholarship that overlooks the issues of ethics and moral philosophy that informed classical political economy.' - Eric Helleiner, University of Waterloo, Canada
'This major new study demonstrates the richness and complexity of Adam Smith's thought and its relevance to understanding the current problems of our political economy.' - Andrew Gamble, University of Sheffield, UK