ABSTRACT

Adam Smith is well recognized as a forefather of modem economics but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his writings. The Adam Smith Review 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 for the modem world. It is the only publication of its kind and is aimed at facilitating debate between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the transdisciplinary reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape.

The second volume of this refereed series contains contributions from a multidisciplinary range of specialists, including Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Samuel Fleischacker, Charles Griswold, Elias Khalil, Catherine Labio, Brendan Long, James Otteson, Ian Simpson Ross, Roberto Scazzieri, Eric Schliesser and Jeffrey Young, who discuss such themes as:

  • Adam Smith’s moral theory and the theory of choice
  • Adam Smith and the literary turn
  • the unfinished nature of Smith’s oeuvre
  • the relation between Adam Smith’s moral philosophy and economics

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Smith the hedgehog

chapter |27 pages

A Smithian theory of choice

chapter |29 pages

Articulating practices as reasons

Adam Smith on the social conditions of possibility of property

chapter |30 pages

The solution is in the text

A survey of the recent literary turn in Adam Smith studies

part |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |6 pages

Adam Smith

Why decentralized systems?

chapter |10 pages

Markets, markets everywhere

A brief response to critics

part |1 pages

Introduction

chapter |7 pages

The portrait and the painter

chapter |7 pages

Adam Smith and the virtues

chapter |8 pages

James E. Alvey, Adam Smith: Optimist or Pessimist? A New Problem Concerning the Teleological Basis of Commercial Society

Ashgate Publishing, 2003, x + 323pp. ISBN 1–840–14901–9

chapter |9 pages

Michaël Biziou, Adam Smith et l’origine du libéralisme

Presses Universitaires de France, 2003, 298pp. ISBN 2–130–52375–7

chapter |3 pages

Gordon Macintyre, Dugald Stewart: The Pride and Ornament of Scotland

Sussex Academic Press, 2003, xii + 335pp. ISBN Hardback 1–903–90034–4, Paperback 1–903–90035–2

chapter |14 pages

Keith Tribe (ed.) A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith, H. Mizuta (Advisory ed.)

Pickering & Chatto, 2002, viii + 402pp.