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.
Editorial introduction
Glasgow Symposium: On Morality and Justice in Adam Smith
Introduction
CRAIG SMITH
Smith's Sentimentalist Conception of Self-Command
LAUREN KOPAJTIC
Adam Smith's moral decision-making process
ANTONINO FALDUTO
Smith's virtue ethics and the derivative value of character
AINO LAHDENRANTA
Resentment, justice, and civility in Adam Smith's moral theory
JONATHAN JACOBS
Commutative, distributive, and estimative justice in Adam Smith
DANIEL B. KLEIN
Two jural superiors, two jural relationships in Adam Smith
JONATHAN DIESEL
Deference to authority in Adam Smith
SPIROS TEGOS
Deriving "general principles" in Adam Smith: The ubiquity of equilibrium and comparative statics analysis throughout his works
GLORY LIU AND BARRY WEINGAST
Adam Smith's conjectural history of human habitation
ZEV TRACHTENBERG
Adam Smith as political problem solver: the 'Project of Empire' and the American War of Independence
LISA HILL
Palermo Symposium: Multidisciplinary studies on Adam Smith’s thought: Economics, Ethics, and Law
Guest editor: FABRIZIO SIMON
Introduction
FABRIZIO SIMON
The focus on Adam Smith today. Some introductory notes
PIERO BARUCCI
Ancient and modern sources in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
GLORIA VIVENZA
Can scientific explanations reveal the ultimate laws of nature? The limits of philosophical enquiries in the posthumously published Essays of Adam Smith
NATALIA BORZA
Sensationalism and the moral sentiments. P.L. Roederer’s reading of Smith’s System of Sympathy
RICHARD VAN DEN BERG
The impartial spectator and the strictness of rules
MARIO RIZZO
Persistent Inefficiency: Adam Smith's Theory of Slavery
BARRY R. WEINGAST
Articles
Chapter II (Part V) of The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Exploring the continuity in Adam Smith’s thought
MICHELE BEE
Adam Smith goes Dutch: the Reception of Smith in the Netherlands (1759-1800)
JOOST HENGSTMENGEL
Book Reviews
Charles L. Griswold, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter
REVIEWED BY GLORY LIU
Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought
REVIEWED BY REINHARD SCHUMACHER
Cecil E. Bohanon and Michelle Albert Vachris, Pride and Profit: The Intersection of Jane Austin and Adam Smith
REVIEWED BY CHRISTEL FRICKE
Ryan Patrick Hanley, ed. Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy
REVIEWED BY EMILY SKARBEK
Biography
Fonna Forman is a professor of political science and founding director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego, USA. She is the editor of The Adam Smith Review on behalf of the International Adam Smith Society.
