1st Edition

The Adam Smith Review Volume 14

Edited By Fonna Forman Copyright 2025
382 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Adam Smith’s contribution to economics is well recognized, 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... Read more

List of contributors  

Editorial Introduction

Introduction

Shinji Nohara

 PART I : 2020 IASS Tokyo Symposium

Adam Smith’s Private Class in the Chair of Moral Philosophy: Character Sketches Revisited in the Last Edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Hisashi Shinohara

 

The Transformation of Liberalism and Adam Smith in Japan: How Liberalism Survived Its Crises

Shinji Nohara

 

Two Senses to Smith's Invisible (Divine) Hand

Brendan Long

 

Adam Smith’s Theory of Value: A Reappraisal of Classical Price Discovery

Sabiou M. Inoua, Vernon L. Smith

 

Virtues for Spectators and for Actors: Adam Smith on the amiable and respectable virtues and ‘an assembly of strangers’

Hiroki Ueno

 

Taste and Commerce in Adam Smith

Jimena Hurtado Prieto

 

PART II : 2021 IASS Madison Symposium

 

Introduction

Michelle Schwarze

 

Injecting Adam Smith’s Ideas in the Market for Kidney Transplants

Walter Castro and Julio J. Elias

 

Adam Smith and Confucius on Morality: A Comparative Study of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Analects of Confucius

Hairuo Tan

 

Monopoly and the Dysfunction of the Social Mechanism of Equal Respect: A New Reading of Adam Smith's Critique of Monopoly

 Xinzhi Zhao

 

PART III : Comments on Samuel Fleischacker’s Being Me Being You

 

Adam Smith on Humanity and Moral Concern: Comments on Samuel Fleischacker’s Being Me Being You

Remy Debes

 

Being Me and Understanding You: Comments on Samuel Fleischacker’s Being Me Being You

Karsten R. Stueber

 

Humanity, Empathy, and the Self: Comments on Samuel Fleischacker’s Being Me Being You

Nir Ben-Moshe

 

Response to My Critics

Samuel Fleischacker

 

PART IV : Articles

 

Adam Smith and the Mind at Work

Richard Hughes Gibson

 

Mutual Sympathy contra Peculiar Sympathy: Adam Smith’s Distinction between Fondness and Admiration

Elias L. Khalil

 

Is the Source of Morality a Racist, Anti-Semitic Homophobe?

A Defense of the Impartial Spectator in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments

Sarah W. Hirschfield

 

Virtue as a remedy for partiality: A Reading of The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Alvaro Ledesma Albornoz

 

An Economist at the Opera: Adam Smith’s Passion for the Arts in 1766 Paris

Olivier M. Delers, Linda Fairtile, Jonathan B. Wight

 

PART V : Book Reviews

 

Alain Alcouffe and Philippe Massot-Bordenave, Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania: The Unknown Years

Reviewed by Rémy Duthille

 

Antii Lepistö The Rise of Common Sense Conservatism: The American Right and the Reinvention of the Scottish Enlightenment

Glory M. Liu Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

Reviewed by Yun Min Cho

 

Adam Smith, Lecciones sobre retórica

Reviewed by Carmen Hidalgo Roldán

 

Notes for Contributors

Biography

Fonna Forman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California San Diego, where she is Founding Director of the UCSD Center on Global Justice.