1st Edition

The Adam Smith Review Volume 2

Edited By Vivienne Brown Copyright 2006
320 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Adam Smith is well recognized as a forefather of modem economics but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his writings. The Adam Smith Review 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 for the modem world. It is the only publication of its kind and... Read more
Introduction: Smith the Hedgehog. A Smithian Theory of Choice. Adam Smith and New Institutional Theories of Property Rights. Articulating Practices as Reasons: Adam Smith on the Social Conditions of Possibility of Property. Invidious Sympathy in 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments'. Adam Smith’s Natural Theology of Society. The Solution is in the Text: A Survey of the Recent Literary Turn in Adam Smith Studies. On the Incompleteness of Adam Smith’s System. Reply to Charles Griswold: ‘On the Incompleteness of Adam Smith’s System’. Introduction to Symposium on James R. Otteson’s Adam Smith and the Marketplace of Ideas. Why Adam Smith is Neither a Conservative nor a Libertarian. Adam Smith: Why Decentralized Systems? Adam Smith’s Theoretical Endorsement of Deception. Markets Markets Everywhere: A Brief Response to Critics. Introduction to Symposium on Samuel Fleischacker’s On Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Hanley The Portrait and The Painter. 'The Wealth of Nations and Social Science'. Adam Smith and the Virtues. Response. Book Reviews

Biography

Vivienne Brown is Professor of Intellectual History, and Head of Economics discipline, at the Open University, UK.  She is the author of numerous articles, and Adam Smith's Discourse: Canonicity, Commerce and Conscience, (also published by Routledge). She edited companion first volume of The Adam Smith Review.