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 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.

The eighth volume of the series contains contributions form a multidisciplinary range of specialists, including Fonna Forman, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Dionysis Drosos, Matti Norri, Adelino Zanini, Cesare Cozzo, Estrella Trincado, Michaël Biziou, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Heinrique Schnieder, The Right Honorable Gordon Brown, Gavin Kennedy, Iain McLean, Vernon Smith, Alan Lopez, John Thrasher, Tom Martin, Brian Glenney, Şule Özler, Paul A. Gabrinetti, Craig Smith, Michelle A. Schwarze, Edwin van de Haar, Farhad Rassekh, Lauren Brubaker, Gordon Graham and Eric Schliesser.

Themes of the volume include:

  • Translating Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
  • Smith and China
  • Adam Smith in Kirkcaldy

chapter |2 pages

Terms

chapter |13 pages

Influence

chapter |6 pages

Confucius versusAdam Smith?

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |16 pages

Humanomics of Adam Smith

chapter 5|11 pages

Smithian contractarianism

chapter |3 pages

Notes

chapter |16 pages

Part I: Of the propriety of action

chapter |4 pages

Andrew Hamilton, Trade and empire in the eighteenth century atlantic world

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, 168pp.

chapter |7 pages

Daniel B. Klein, Knowledge and coordination: A liberal interpretation

NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 384pp.

chapter |4 pages

Steven G. Medema, The hesitant hand: Taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009, 230pp.

chapter |6 pages

James R. Otteson, Adam Smith

London: Continuum, 2011, 179pp.

chapter |7 pages

Jeffrey T. Young (editor), Elgar companion to Adam Smith

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2009, 374pp.

chapter |2 pages

Notes for contributors