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 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 between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape.

This ninth volume brings together leading scholars from across several disciplines to consider topics as diverse as Smith’s work in the context of scholars such as Immanuel Kant, Yan Fu and David Hume, Smith as the father of modern economics, and Smith’s views on education and trade. This volume also has a particular focus on Asia, and includes a section that presents articles from leading scholars from the region.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter |10 pages

Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant as critics of empire

International trade companies and global commerce versus jus commercii

chapter |19 pages

Apoikia and colonia

Smith’s comments on the ‘recent disturbances’ in the colonies

chapter |26 pages

Adam Smith’s four-stages theory of socio-cultural evolution

New insights from his 1749 lecture

chapter |19 pages

Adam Smith’s invisible hand

A brief history

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter |13 pages

Adam Smith and the radical Enlightenment: a response to

A response to Jonathan Israel

chapter |24 pages

Yan Fu’s Wealth of Nations: a Victorian Adam Smith in late

A Victorian Adam Smith in late Qing China

chapter |32 pages

‘Regarding the Pain of Others’

A Smith–Sontag dialogue on war photography and the production of sympathy

chapter |17 pages

Adam Smith’s early German readers

Reception, misreception, and critique

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Christopher J. Berry, The idea of commercial society in the Scottish Enlightenment

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013, xii + 244pp.

chapter |3 pages

Eamonn Butler, Adam Smith – a primer

London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007, 125pp.

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Ryan Hanley (editor), Adam Smith’s The theory of moral sentiments, with an introduction by Amartya Sen

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 2010, 450pp.

chapter |3 pages

Ian Simpson Ross, The life of Adam Smith (2nd edition)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, xxxii + 453pp.

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Notes for contributors