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

    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 is aimed at facilitating debate between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the transdisciplinary reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape. The second volume of this refereed series contains contributions from a multidisciplinary range of specialists, including Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Samuel Fleischacker, Charles Griswold, Elias Khalil, Catherine Labio, Brendan Long, James Otteson, Ian Simpson Ross, Roberto Scazzieri, Eric Schliesser and Jeffrey Young, who discuss such themes as: Adam Smith’s moral theory and the theory of choice Adam Smith and the literary turn the unfinished nature of Smith’s oeuvre the relation between Adam Smith’s moral philosophy and economics

    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.