The Adam Smith Review

Volume 12

Fonna Forman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780367521578
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000098266
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review is a rigorously 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 among scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape.

This twelfth volume brings together leading scholars from across several disciplines and contributes to two particular themes. First, there is a focus on Adam Smith's moral and political philosophy, exploring how Smith's approach finds expression in both abstract philosophy and practical judgment. Second, there is a focus on epistemology, economics, and law, with innovative interpretations of Smithian theories.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Editorial introduction
• Glasgow symposium: On morality and justice in Adam Smith
• Introduction
• Adam Smith’s sentimentalist conception of self-command
• Adam Smith’s moral decision-making process
• Adam Smith’s virtue ethics and the derivative value of character
• Adam Smith on resentment, justice, and desert
• Commutative, distributive, and estimative justice in Adam Smith
• Two superiors, two jural relationships in Adam Smith
• Deference to authority in Adam Smith
• Deriving ‘general principles’: Adam Smith’s pervasive use of equilibrium and comparative statics analysis
• The necessity of convenience: Adam Smith’s conjectural history of the human niche
• Adam Smith as political problem solver: The ‘Project of an Empire’ and the American War of Independence
• University of Palermo symposium: Multidisciplinary studies on Adam Smith’s thought – epistemology, economics, and law
• : Introduction
• Studying Adam Smith: The experience of a scholar – some introductive reflections
• Ancient and modern sources in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
• Can scientific explanations reveal the ultimate laws of nature?: The limits of philosophical enquiries in the posthumously published Essays of Adam Smith
• Sensationism and the moral sentiments: P.L. Roederer’s reading of Smith’s system of sympathy
• The impartial spectator and the strictness of rules
• Persistent inefficiency: Adam Smith’s theory of slavery and its abolition in Western Europe
• Articles
• Exploring the continuity in Adam Smith’s thought: Chapter II (Part V) of The Theory of Moral Sentiments
• Adam Smith goes Dutch: The reception of Smith in the Netherlands, 1759–18001
• Book reviews
• Charles L. Griswold, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical EncounterLondon and New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. xxi, 275ISBN: 978-1-138-21895-6
• Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern ThoughtPrinceton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. xiii, 316: ISBN 978-0-691-17701-4
• Cecil E. Bohanon and Michelle Albert Vachris, Pride and Profit: The Intersection of Jane Austen and Adam SmithLanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books, 2015, pp. 202: ISBN: 978-1-498-53026-2
• Ryan Patrick Hanley, ed. Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and LegacyPrinceton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016, pp. xxiv, 571: ISBN: 978-0-691-15405-3
• Notes for contributors