ABSTRACT
The Adam Smith Review is a multidisciplinary refereed annual review that covers all aspects of research relating to Adam Smith, his writings, and his significance for the modern world. It is the only publication of its kind and it aims to facilitate debate between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences.
This first volume contains contributions from a multidisciplinary range of specialists, including Stephen Darwall, Samuel Fleischacker, Willie Henderson, Takashi Negishi, Ian Simpson Ross, Emma Rothschild, Richard B. Sher, Ernst Tugendhat, Gloria Vivenza and Patricia H. Werhane, who discuss such themes as:
- the reception of the Wealth of Nations
- the classics and Adam Smith
- Adam Smith and Kant
- Adam Smith and disequilibrium economic theory
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
. . .laissez-faire when it was new. . . : a comment on
Economic Sentiments Patricia H. Werhane
chapter |8 pages
Luc Boltanski, Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics
Translated by Graham D. Burchell, Cambridge University Press, 1999, xviii 246pp.
chapter |7 pages
Kenneth E. Carpenter, The Dissemination of The Wealth of Nations in French and in France, 1776–1843 Reviewed by HENRY C. CLARK
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 2002, lxiii 255pp.
chapter |6 pages
Gloria Vivenza, Adam Smith and the Classics: The Classical Heritage in Adam Smith’s Thought Reviewed by PETER McNAMARA
Translated by Clive Cheesman and Nicola Gelder, Oxford University Press, 2001, x 240pp.
chapter |9 pages
Jack Russell Weinstein, On Adam Smith Reviewed by LAUREN BRUBAKER
Wadsworth, 2001, 97pp. ISBN 0–534–58384–9
