ABSTRACT
The bicentenary of the Wealth of Nations in 1976 was marked by a predictable flood of conferences, special journal issues, and edited volumes. Most of us probably expected attention to shift elsewhere once the anniversary was safely past. There was indeed something of a lull for a few years, but the volume of work on Smith soon started to rise again and shows no sign of abating. Wight (2002; see also Recktenwald 1978) has documented the remarkable upsurge in the 1980s and 1990s.
