ABSTRACT
The purpose of this postscript is to provide a brief review of what the chapters in this volume have revealed about the history of Scottish economic thought. Such an exercise is of course fraught with historiographical issues. There are well rehearsed difficulties in attempting, inevitably from a later perspective, to interpret old texts and the figures who have produced texts of particular influence. (The passage of time simply adds an important layer on to the issues of interpretation of the work of contemporaries.) The authors in this volume have all aimed to interpret texts and figures as faithfully as possible to their context and authors’ intentions, though these contributions too must be the objects of interpretation.
