1st Edition

The Adam Smith Review: Volume 9

Edited By Fonna Forman Copyright 2017
370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Adam Smith’s contribution to economics is well-recognised, but in recent years scholars have 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... Read more

0.1 Editorial Introduction



Fonna Forman





0.2 David Raphael (1916-2015): A Personal Appreciation



Chris Berry





1 Sorbonne Symposium: Adam Smith on Empire, the Invisible Hand and the Progress of Society



Guest Editor: Benoit Walraevens



1.1 Introduction



Benoît Walraevens



1.2 Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant as critics of Empire: International trade companies and global commerce versus



Jus Commercii, Fotini Vaki



1.3 Apoikia and Colonia – Smith’s Comments on the ‘Recent Disturbances’ in the Colonies



Roberto R. Simiqueli



1.4 Smith on the Colonialism and Republicanism of the Moderns Compared with that of the Ancients



Barry Stocker



1.5 Adam Smith's Socio-cultural Theory of Evolution: New Insights from his 1749 Lecture



Thierry Pauchant



1.6 The Idea of Historical Progress in the Transition from Enlightenment Historiography to Classical Political Economy



Nathaniel Wolloch



1.7 Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand: A brief History



Toni Vogel Carey





2 Adam Smith in International Contexts



Guest Editor: Jeng-Guo S. Chen



2.1 Introduction



Jeng-Guo S. Chen



2.2 Adam Smith and the Radical Enlightenment



Sam Fleischacker



2.3 Why Could Smith Become the Father of Modern Economics?



Tatsuya Sakamoto



2.4 Yan Fu’s Wealth of Nations: A Victorian Adam Smith in Late Qing China



Jeng-Guo S. Chen



2.5 ‘Regarding the Pain of Others’



Eun Kyung Min



2.6 Adam Smith's Early German Readers Reception, Misreception, and Critique



Fania Oz-Salzberger



2.7 Adam Smith and the Encyclopédie



Ryan Patrick Hanley



2.8 Adam Smith Scholarship in People’s Republic of China, 1949- 2013



Biography

Fonna Forman is Associate Professor of Political Science and Founding Co-Director of the Center on Global Justice and the Blum Cross-Border Initiative at the University of California, San Diego, USA. She is Editor of The Adam Smith Review on behalf of the Adam Smith Society.