How would Rousseau have answered the Scots?

Over the last several decades, scholars studying Adam Smith have published a rich assortment of books and articles on Smith’s response to Rousseau. The shortcoming of such works is the paucity of the evidence cited to prove that Smith and other figures of the Scottish Enlightenment were preoccupied with Rousseau. What Smith scholars have provided nevertheless has potential merit if reconfigured as comparative analysis – as hypothetical studies of what they think Smith would have said about Rousseau. What remains to be done is to give Rousseau his hypothetical voice, to ask how he would have responded to the Scots. Turnabout is fair play.