ABSTRACT
One of the remarkable transformations in Adam Smith scholarship since the publication of the Glasgow Edition of the works and correspondence of Adam Smith initiated in the 1970s is the high and growing level of interest in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS 1976). It might have been expected that philosophers would be drawn to this work, but economists and other social scientists have been discovering its insights and have applied them to a range of social and economic issues. Coinciding with new developments in behavioural economics, game theory, institutional economics and evolutionary biology – and perhaps even contributing to some of them – this new interest in TMS has also stimulated attempts to rethink and even attempt to overcome some of the institutionalized disciplinary boundaries between the human sciences.
