ABSTRACT

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

This 13th volume demonstrates, perhaps more so than any other issue in recent memory, the dazzling breadth and diversity of Smith scholarship across the disciplines today – from studies of hospitals, balls and monsters to colonies, clerisy, language and the mind; from issues of empathy, compassion, cohesion, translation, representation, paternalism and moral innovation, to Smith’s influence on Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, American and Italian thought and practice. Adam Smith remains our companion, always provoking us and stimulating creative directions in our thinking and research.

part |146 pages

Chile Symposium

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

Chile Sympoisum

chapter |13 pages

Stronger than a rope of sand?

The ‘problem' of cohesion in a commercial society

chapter |23 pages

Empathy and perspective

A Smithian conception of humanity

chapter |15 pages

Mutual sympathy, hospitals, and balls

David Hume's objection to the ‘hinge' of Adam Smith's moral theory

chapter |18 pages

First-order compassion and second-order compassion

One central difference in the social thought of David Hume and Adam Smith regarding the installment of social stability

part |138 pages

University of Palermo Symposium

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

Palermo Symposium

chapter |54 pages

Translation as the convergence of politico-economic and linguistic matters

The Portuguese version of Adam Smith's Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages (1816) 1

chapter |18 pages

Economics terms from Scotland to Italy

The first Italian translations of Smith's Wealth of Nations (1790/91–1851)

part |78 pages

Articles

chapter |25 pages

Thomas Chalmers' clerisy

A legacy of Adam Smith's last teachings

chapter |16 pages

Machine and system

Adam Smith and the encyclopédistes 1

part |26 pages

Book Reviews