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 refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of his Adam Smith’s works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings for the modern world. It is aimed at facilitating debate between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the transdisciplinary reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape.

The fourth volume of the series contains contributions form a multidisciplinary range of specialists, including, Henry C. Clark, Douglas J. Den Uyl, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Neven B. Leddy, David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart, Robert Mankin, Leonidas Montes, James R. Otteson, Andrew S. Skinner, and Gloria Vivenza, who discuss:

  • the sources and influences of Smith’s work in the classics, the Scottish Enlightenment and eighteenth-century France
  • the Glasgow Edition of Smith’s Works and the Wealth of Nations

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

Adam Smith’s sources

chapter |18 pages

Justice for the criminal

Classical themes at the origin of Smithian ideas

chapter |31 pages

Adam Smith and his sources

The evil of independence

chapter |18 pages

Style and sentiment

Smith and Swift

chapter |28 pages

Pins and needles: Adam Smith and the sources of the

Adam Smith and the sources of the

chapter |1 pages

Editor’s introduction

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

Interdisciplinarity in Smith studies

chapter |10 pages

Whose impartiality? Which self-interest?

Adam Smith on utility, happiness and cultural relativism

chapter |7 pages

Christel Fricke and Hans-Peter Schütt (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph

Walter de Gruyter, 2005, 374 pp.

chapter |8 pages

Istvan Hont, Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective

Harvard University Press, 2005, 560 pp. ISBN Hardback: 0674010388

chapter |7 pages

Iain McLean, Adam Smith Radical and Egalitarian: An Interpretation for the 21st Century

(With a foreword by Gordon Brown) Edinburgh University Press, 2006, 272 pp. ISBN Hardback: 1403977917

chapter |6 pages

Tiziano Raffaelli, Ricchezza delle Nazioni: Introduzione alla lettura

Carrocci editore, 2001, 215 pp. ISBN Hardback: 88–430–1746–2

chapter |9 pages

D.D. Raphael, The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

Clarendon Press, 2007, 150 pp. ISBN Hardback: 019921333X

chapter |1 pages

Notes for contributors

chapter |1 pages

Books for review

chapter |2 pages

Announcements