1st Edition
The Rise of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment
Introduction. 1. Andrew Fletcher's Criticism of Commercial Civilization and his Plan for European Federal Union 2. Policy Debate on Economic Development in Scotland: The 1720s to the 1730s 3. Morality, Polity and Economy in Francis Hutcheson 4. Robert Wallace and the Irish and Scottish Enlightenment 5. The Ancient-Modern Controversy in the Scottish Enlightenment 6. Hume's Political Economy as a System of Manners 7. The 'Scottish Triangle' in the Shaping of Political Economy: David Hume, Sir James Steurt and Adam Smith 8. Adam Smith's Politics of Taxation: Reconsideration of the Image of 'Civilised Society' in the Wealth of Nations 9. The Main Themes and Structure of Moral Philosophy and the Formation of Political Economy in Adam Smith 10. Civilization and History in Lord Kames and William Robertson 11. Liberty and Equality: Liberal Democratic Ideas in John Millar 12. Dugald Stewart at the Final Stage of the Scottish Enlightenment: Natural Jurisprudence, Political Economy and the Science of Politics 13. Adam Smith in Japan
Biography
Tatsuya Sakamoto is Professor of the History of Social Thought in the Faculty of Economics at Keio University, Japan. His publications on David Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment include David Hume's Civilized Society: Industry, Knowledge and Liberty which was awarded the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities (1996) and the Japan Academy prize (2001).
Hideo Tanaka is Professor of the History of Social Thought in the Faculty of Economics at Kyoto University, Japan. His numerous books and articles on the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers include Studies in the Intellectual History of the Scottish Enlightenment and Revision of the Science of Society: from Natural Law to Social Science.
