ABSTRACT
The present collection of papers on Adam Smith edited by Leonidas Montes and Eric Schliesser comprises the contribution of fourteen scholars who defended doctoral theses on Adam Smith in the US and Europe between 2000-2004.1 The main purpose of the collection is the ‘broadening of the study of Smith’ (8), because as the philosopher Knud Haakonssen asserts in his foreword, ‘our understanding . . . has been severely hampered by narrow economic boundaries’ (xviii). Against this background most of the contributions voluntarily adopt a philosophical perspective;2 rather than a ‘reconsideration of his views in economics’ (8). In other words, the dominant philosophy of the present collection on Adam Smith is to provide ‘more than economics’.
