1st Edition

Lauderdale's Notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

Edited By Chuhei Sugiyama Copyright 1996
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    For a long time, the work of the 8th Earl of Lauderdale, James Maitland, was badly neglected. It has only been in this century that his contribution to economic thought has been reassessed and revalued. Since then he has come to be recognized as the earliest systematic critic of Smith's economic thought. This revaluation continues now with the publication of Lauderdale's Notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations .
    The work, the existence of which was only discovered five years ago, is published here for the first time. It is reproduced from the hand-written notes and marginalia which appear in Lauderdale's own edition of the Wealth of Nations which in now housed in the Tokyo Keizai University Library. The notes are reproduced here in full along with the relevant passages from The Wealth of Nations to which they refer.

    Introduction and Plan of the Work; Part I Book I; Part II Book II; Part III Book III; Part IV Book IV; Part V Book V;

    Biography

    Chuhei Sugiyama is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Tokyo Keizai University. He has extensive teaching and research experience both in Japan and the UK. He is highly regarded as both an economist and a historian of economic thought.