ABSTRACT

Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. An important contribution to the study of the history of economics, this eagerly-awaited book will develop an unsurprisingly large following.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|64 pages

The etiology of Adam Smith’s division of labor

Alternative accounts and Smith’s methodology applied to them

chapter |18 pages

Appendix How does Smith achieve a synthesis in writing?

Evidence from his analsyis of the propensity to truck, barter and exchange