ABSTRACT
During the first two decades of the ninetenth century, The Wealth of Nations (WN) experienced a new period of dissemination in Spain. This chapter aims at examining the main channels of the introduction of Smith’s ideas during this period. On the one hand, the chapter analyses the heterodox translations of the WN made up by the Catalan Lázaro Dou and the Castilian Gonzalo de Luna respectively. On the other hand, it explores the Smithian roots of the Spanish treatises on political economy. Finally, the vast economic literature published during these years within institutions like the Aragon Economic Society, the Navarre Parliament or around the debate on public finances and in the context of development strategies, are carefully analysed. All this demonstrates how the Smithian influence persisted but had a decreasing impact due to the growing hegemony of Say’s works.
