ABSTRACT

Adam Smith’s contribution to economics is well recognised, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a rigorously refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith’s works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings to the modern world. It is aimed at facilitating debate among scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape.

This twelfth volume brings together leading scholars from across several disciplines and contributes to two particular themes. First, there is a focus on Adam Smith’s moral and political philosophy, exploring how Smith’s approach finds expression in both abstract philosophy and practical judgment. Second, there is a focus on epistemology, economics, and law, with innovative interpretations of Smithian theories.

part |202 pages

Glasgow symposium

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter |32 pages

Deriving ‘general principles’ 1

Adam Smith’s pervasive use of equilibrium and comparative statics analysis

chapter |17 pages

The necessity of convenience

Adam Smith’s conjectural history of the human niche

chapter |20 pages

Adam Smith as political problem solver

The ‘Project of an Empire’ and the American War of Independence

part |108 pages

University of Palermo symposium

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |4 pages

Studying Adam Smith

The experience of a scholar – some introductive reflections

chapter |18 pages

Can scientific explanations reveal the ultimate laws of nature?

The limits of philosophical enquiries in the posthumously published Essays of Adam Smith

chapter |30 pages

Sensationism and the moral sentiments

P.L. Roederer’s reading of Smith’s system of sympathy

chapter |21 pages

Persistent inefficiency

Adam Smith’s theory of slavery and its abolition in Western Europe

part |66 pages

Articles

chapter |16 pages

Exploring the continuity in Adam Smith’s thought

Chapter II (Part V) of The Theory of Moral Sentiments

chapter |48 pages

Adam Smith goes Dutch

The reception of Smith in the Netherlands, 1759–1800

part |21 pages

Book reviews

chapter |5 pages

Charles L. Griswold, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter

London and New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. xxi, 275ISBN: 978-1-138-21895-6

chapter |3 pages

Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. xiii, 316 ISBN 978-0-691-17701-4

chapter |6 pages

Cecil E. Bohanon and Michelle Albert Vachris, Pride and Profit: The Intersection of Jane Austen and Adam Smith

Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books, 2015, pp. 202 ISBN: 978-1-498-53026-2

chapter |5 pages

Ryan Patrick Hanley, ed. Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016, pp. xxiv, 571 ISBN: 978-0-691-15405-3