ABSTRACT

Adam Smith’s contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a 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 between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape.

The seventh volume of the series contains contributions from specialists across a range of disciplines, including Christopher Berry, Maureen Harkin, Edith Kuiper, N.B. Leddy, Catriona Seth, Henry C. Clarke, Deidre Dawson, Dionysios Drosos, Ioannis A.Tassopoulos, Jeremy Jennings, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Fotini Vaki, Spiros Tegos, Nicholas J. Theocarakis, Chandran Kukathas, Donald Winch, Fonna Forman, Craig Smith, Nicholas Phillipson, Chad Flanders, Emily Nacol, Andrea Radasanu, Rachel Zuckert, Michael L. Fraser, Ian S. Ross, Daniel B. Klein, Douglas J. Den Uyl, James A. Harris, Geoffrey Kellow, Paul Dumouchel, Jan Horst Keppler, Paul Oslington, Adrian Walsh, Spencer J. Pack, and Dennis C. Rasmussen.

Topics examined include:

  • Smith and Women
  • Adam Smith in Greece
  • Nicholas Phillipson's Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life
  • Michael L. Fraser's The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today

part |78 pages

Symposium

chapter |5 pages

Adam Smith and women

Introduction

chapter |10 pages

Grave, philosophical and cool reasoner

Mary Wollstonecraft on the use of gender in Adam Smith 1

chapter |23 pages

Love, marriage and virtue

Mary Wollstonecraft and Sophie de Grouchy, Marquise de Condorcet, respond to The Theory of Moral Sentiments

chapter |15 pages

Adam Smith on women

Nature, history, and liberty

chapter |17 pages

The invisible hands

Adam Smith and the women in his life

part |35 pages

Symposium

chapter |7 pages

The mind as a whole

Comments on Frazer's Enlightenment of Sympathy

chapter |6 pages

Reassessing sympathy

Response to The Enlightenment of Sympathy

chapter |8 pages

Sentimentalism, autonomy, and holism

Comments on Michael Frazer's Enlightenment of Sympathy

part |55 pages

Book reviews

chapter |14 pages

Fonna Forman-Barzilai, Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy

Cambridge University Press, 2010, xv+286 pp. ISBN-10: 0521-76112-3; ISBN-13: 978-0521-76112-3

chapter |7 pages

Ryan Patrick Hanley, Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

Cambridge University Press, 2009, xvi + 224 pp. ISBN-10: 0521-44929-4; ISBN-13: 978-0521-44929-8

chapter |4 pages

Willie Henderson, Evaluating Adam Smith: Creating the Wealth of Nations

Routledge, 2006, 192 pp. ISBN-10: 0415-33668-6; ISBN-13: 978-0415-33668-0

chapter |8 pages

Jan Horst Keppler, Adam Smith and the Economy of the Passions

London: Routledge, 2010, xviii+163 pp. ISBN-10: 0415-56986-9; ISBN-13: 978-0415-56986-6

chapter |4 pages

Paul Oslington, ed., Adam Smith as Theologian

London: Routledge, 2011, 156 pp. ISBN-978-0-415-88071-8; ISBN-13: 978-0415-88071-8

chapter |7 pages

Spencer J. Pack, Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx: On Some Fundamental Issues in 21st Century Political Economy

Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010, xv+260 pp. ISBN-10: 1848-44763-9; ISBN-13: 978-1848-44763-9

chapter |9 pages

Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau

University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, xi+193 pp. ISBN-10: 0271-03349-5; ISBN-13: 978-0271-03349-5