ABSTRACT
For a long time, the work of the 8th Earl of Lauderdale, James Maitland, was badly neglected. It has only been in this century that his contribution to economic thought has been reassessed and revalued. Since then he has come to be recognized as the earliest systematic critic of Smith's economic thought. This revaluation continues now with the publication of Lauderdale's Notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
The work, the existence of which was only discovered five years ago, is published here for the first time. It is reproduced from the hand-written notes and marginalia which appear in Lauderdale's own edition of the Wealth of Nations which in now housed in the Tokyo Keizai University Library. The notes are reproduced here in full along with the relevant passages from The Wealth of Nations to which they refer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |162 pages
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, 1776
part |98 pages
Extracts from Volume I, with notes by James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale
chapter |1 pages
Introduction and Plan of the Work
part |56 pages
Book 1
chapter 1|4 pages
Chapter 1
chapter 2|1 pages
Chapter 2
chapter 3|2 pages
Chapter 3
chapter 4|2 pages
Chapter 4
chapter 5|9 pages
Chapter 5
chapter 6|6 pages
Chapter 6
chapter 7|3 pages
Chapter 7
chapter 8|9 pages
Chapter 8
chapter 9|1 pages
Chapter 9
chapter 10|3 pages
Chapter 10
chapter 11|16 pages
Chapter 11
part |37 pages
Book 2
part |1 pages
Book 3
chapter 17|1 pages
Chapter 3
part |64 pages
Extracts from Volume II, with notes by James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale
part |51 pages
Book 4