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Adam Smith Bibliography

  This incomplete bibliography is compiled from several sources and will be added to from time to time (suggestions welcome, especially corrections and omissions).  The accuracy of the citations depends on the source and there are variations in detail provided for some entries:

Sources: 

My own notes and references: gavin@adamsmithslostlegacy.com

Edward J. Harpham’s Website, www.utdallas.edu/~harpham/toppage12.htm@utdallas.edu.
The International Adam Smith Society
Adam Smith Institute  

Numerous scholarly books on Adam Smith

Sections:

1          Editions of Smith’s Works

1a:       Diffusion of Smith’s Works abroad

2          Biographies of Adam Smith

3          Biographical sources for Adam Smith

4          Scottish Enlightenment

5          Contemporaries

6          Classical Economics 

7          Analysis of Smith’s Political Economy

8          Economic History

8a       Economics Before Adam Smith

8b       Das Adam Smith Problem

8c       Adam Smith on religion

8d      The invisible hand

8e      The division of labour

9        Essays on Adam Smith’s Works

 

1 Editions of Smith’s Works

Jenkins, A. H. 1948, Adam Smith Today: The Wealth of Nations Simplified, Shortened, and Modified, Richard R Smith

Smith, A. 1759,The Theory of Moral Sentiments, A. Millar, Edinburgh, A. Kincaid & J. Bell, London;

second edition, revised 1761;

enlarged third edition, 1767, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, To which is added A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages A. Millar, London, A. Kincaid, & A. Bell, Edinburgh;

fourth edition, 1774, W. Strahan, J. & F. Rivington, T. Longman and T. Cadell, London, W. Creech, Edinburgh;

fifth edition 1781; sixth edition, 1790, enlarged and corrected, 2 volumes, A. Strahan & A. Cadell, London, W. Creech & J. Bell, Edinburgh.

Smith, A. 1776, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 volumes, W. Strahan & T. Cadell, London;

second edition, 1778,

revised; third edition, 1784, with “Additions and Corrections”, 3 volumes, A. Strahan & T. Cadell, (London;

fourth edition, 1786, A. Strahan & T. Cadell, London; fifth edition, 1789

subsequent editions edited by:

Playfair, W. 1805, Murray, London

Buchanan, D. 1814, Murray, London

Wakefield, E. G. 1843a, Murray, London

McCulloch, J. R. 1843b A. C. Black, Edinbutgh

Thorold Rogers, J. E. 1880. Clarendon Press, Oxford

Cannan E. 1937. [1904] Modern Library, New York

Campbell, R. H. and Skinner, A. S. 1976, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Stigler, G. J. 1976. “Preface”, in The Wealth of Nations, xi-xiv, Chicago University Press, Chicago

Smith, A. 1795, Essays on Philosophical Subjects to which is prefixed An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Dugald Stewart; edited Joseph Black and James Hutton, T.Cadell, jr., London,  W. Davies & W. Creech, Edinburgh

Smith, A. 1896. Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms, Delivered in the University of Glasgow by Adam Smith, reported by a student in 1763, edited Edwin Cannan, Clarendon Press, Oxford

Smith, A. 1963, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres delivered in the University of Glasgow by Adam Smith, Reported by a student in 1762-63, edited John M. Lothian, Nelson, London

Smith, A. (1759), The Theory of Moral Sentiments, The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 1976, Oxford University Press; Liberty Fund, edition, 1982.

Smith, Adam. (1761).  “Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages and the Different Genius of original and compounded Languages, The Philological Miscellany, May 1761, pp. 440-79; 3rd edition TMS, 1767, pp. 437-78; LRBL, Glasgow Edition, Oxford University Press, 1983 (Liberty 1987), pp 203-226

Smith, A. (1776) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, , 2 vols. Edited by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner, Textual editor, W. B. Todd, The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 1976 Oxford University Press, Liberty Fund, edition, 1979.                                                   

Smith, A. 1762-3 and 1766, Lectures on Jurisprudence, edited by R. L. Meek, D. D. Raphael, and P. G. Stein, The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 1978, Oxford University Press, Liberty Fund edition, 1982               

Smith, A. [1743-48?] ‘The Principles which lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries: illustrated by the History of Astronomy’, Essays on Philosophical Subjects,  The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 1980, Oxford University Press, Liberty Fund edition, 1982                                                         

Smith, A. Correspondence, edited by E. C. Mossner and I. S. Ross, The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 1977, revised 1987, Oxford University Press, Liberty Fund edition, 1987                                                                      

Smith, A.  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, edited by J. C. Bryce, The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 1983, Oxford University Press, Liberty Fund edition, 1985                     

Cannan, E. ed. 1896. [Adam Smith’s] Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms, delivered in the University of Glasgow by Adam Smith, Oxford University Press, Oxford

 

1a: Diffusion of Smith’s Works home and abroad

Carpenter, K. E. 2002. The Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in French and in France, 1776-1843, The Bibliographical Society of America

Cordasco, F., and Franklin, B. 1950. Adam Smith: a bibliographical checklist, Franklin, New York

Faccarello, G. and Steiner, P. 2002. “The diffusion of the work of Adam Smith in the French language: an outline history” in K. Tribe, ed. A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith, Pickering & Chatto, London

 

Lai, C. ed. 2000. Adam Smith Across Nations: translations and receptions of the Wealth of Nations, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Ross, I. S. ed. 1998. On the Wealth of Nations: contemporary responses to Adam Smith, Thoemmes Press, Bristol

Sher, R. B. 2002.  “Early editions of Adam Smith’s books in Britain and Ireland 1759-1804“, in K. Tribe and H. Mizuta, eds. A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith, Pickering and Chato, London

Sher, R. B. 2004. „New light on the publication and reception of the Wealth of Nations“, The Adam Smith Review, 1: 3-29

Teichgraeber, III, R. F. 1987, ‘“Less abused than I had reason to suspect”: the reception of the Wealth of Nations in Britain, 1776-1790’, Historical Journal, 30: 337- 366

2          Biographies of Adam Smith

Campbell, R. H. and Skinner, A. S. 1982.  Adam Smith, London

Haldane, R. B. 1887. Life of Adam Smith, Walter Scott, London
Hirst, F. W. 1904. Adam Smith, MacMillan & Co, London

McCulloch, J. R. 1855, Sketch of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, LL.D, Murray and Gibb, Edinburgh

MacPherson, H. C.1899. Adam Smith, Famous Scots Series, Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh

RSE, Literary Section, National Library of Scotland, Ms. Acc 10,000/3, p. 79

Rae, J. (1895) 1965, Life of Adam Smith, Macmillan, London; intro. Jacob Viner, Augustus Kelly, Hairfield, New Jersey;                   

Raphael, D D. 1985. Adam Smith Oxford University Press, Oxford
Ross, I. S. 1995. The Life of Adam Smith, Clarendon Press, Oxford

Scott, W. R. 1937. Adam Smith as Student and Professor, with unpublished documents, including parts of the ‘Edinburgh Lectures’, a draft of The Wealth of Nations, Extracts from the Muniments of the University of Glasgow and Correspondence, Jackson and company, Glasgow

Stewart, D. 1793. Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith LL.D, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, January 21 and March 18, 1793,

Stewart, D. 1854-60. Collected Works, ed. Sir William Hamilton, Constable, Edinburgh

Viner, J. 1965. Guide to John Rae’s Life of Adam Smith, Augustus M. Kelly, Fairfield, N.J.,

3          Biographical sources for Adam Smith

Addison, W. L. 1901, The Snell Exhibitions from the University of Glasgow to Balliol College, 1728-1858, J. Maclehose, Glasgow 

Barfoot, M. 1991. ‘Dr. William Cullen and Mr Adam Smith: a case of hypochondriasis?’ Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1991, vol.21, pp 204-21 

 

Berkeley, G. 1744. ‘Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water’, in G. Berkeley, Works, ed. A. C. Fraser, vol iii.  p. 179, 1901, Clarendon Press, Oxford

Bonar, J. 1932 (1894) A Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith, 1894, (2nd edition 1932)

Callander, J. Edinburgh University Library, MSS. La II, pp. 451/2

Carlyle, A. (1860, 2nd ed), Autobiography of the Rev. Dr Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, containing  memorials of the men and events of his time, Blackwood, Edinburgh

Clayden, P. W. 1887, The Early Life of Samuel Rogers, Smith Elder & Co. London

Currie, J. 1831, Memoirs, 2 vols. Longman, London

Cockburn, 1856, Memorials of His Time, A & C Black, Edinburgh

Cockburn, 1888. An Examination of the Trials for Sedition which have hitherto occurred in Scotland, D. Douglas, Edinburgh,

Emerson, R. L. 1995. Politics and the Glasgow Professors, 1690-1800, in Hook and Sher, eds. 1995: 21-39

Howell, T. B. and Howell, T. J., eds., 1817, A Complete Collection of State Trials, T, C. Hansard, London

Logue, K. J. 1979. Popular Disturbances in Scotland: 1780-1815, John Donald, Edinburgh

Rude, G.1974. Paris and London in the 18th Century, Fontana/Collins, London
Woodrow, J. 1751. Glasgow University Library, Murray MS 506

Yanaihara, T. 1951, A Full and Detailed Catalogue of Books which belonged to Adam Smith: now in the possession of the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, with notes and explanations, Augustus

4          Contemporaries

Bentham, J. [1789], 1996. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ed.  J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart, Clarendon Press, Oxford

Cantillon, R. 1971 (1755). Essai sue la Nature du Commerce en General, edited and translated, Henry Higgs, A. M. Kelly, New York

Charlevoix, Pierre-Francois-Xavier de, [1722] 1761, Journal of a Voyage to North-America, Undertaken by Order of the French King, London

Dalrymple, J. 1757. Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain,

Forbes, D. ed. 1966, Ferguson, A. [1767, 1773, 1814] An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Forbes, D. 1975. ‘Sceptical Whiggism, Commerce and Liberty,’ in Skinner and Wilson, 1975

Gibbon, E. 1776-88, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vols, W. Strahan & T. Cadell, London

Grotius, [1625] 1964. The Law of War and Peace, Trans. F. W. Kelsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington (reprint: Oceana Publications, New York

Hobbes, T. 1946 [1651] Leviathan or the matter, forme and power of a Commonwealth ecclesiasticall and civil, London, ed. M. Oakeshott, Blackwell, Oxford

Hume, D. 1985 [1739-40], A Treatise of Human Nature, London; edited, E. C. Mossner, Penguin Books, London

Hume, D. 1768. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, London

Hume, D. 1987. ‘Of Commerce’ in Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Egene Millar, ed.  Liberty Press, Indianapolis

Hume, D. 1997 (1777). My Own Life, Mermaid Turbulence, Dublin
Hume, D. 1932, The Letters of David Hume, ed J. Y. T. Greig, Oxford, 2 Vols

Hutcheson, F. 1725, An Inquiry into the Original of our ideas of Beauty and Virtue, p. 195, cited in R. F. Teichgraeber, III, 1986, p 42

Hutcheson, F. 1755, A System of Moral Philosophy, 3 vols. A. Millar, London

Hutcheson, F. 1969 [1755]. Collected Works, facsimile edition, George Holms, Hildesheim

Kames, Lord [Henry Home], 1758. Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (2nd edition)

Kames, Lord, 1758, Historical Law Tracts, Edinburgh

Kames, Lord [Henry Home], 1758. Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (2nd edition)

Lafitau, J-F. 1974, Customs of the North American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times, Ed. and translated, W. N. Fenton and E. L. Moore, Chaplain Society, Toronto 

Locj, D. 1775. Essays on the Trade, Commerce and Manufacturers of Scotland, Edinburgh

Macintyre, G. 2003. Dugald Stewart: the pride and ornament of Scotland, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton

Malthus, T. 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society, London

Mandeville, B. [1705-1732] 1924. The Fable of the Bees, or, Private vices, publick benefits, with a commentary, critical, historical and explanatory, by F. B. Kaye, 2 vols. Clarendon Press, Oxford

Millar, J. 1990 [1806] The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks: or an inquiry into the circumstances which give rise to the influence and authority in the different members of society, 4th edition, in which is prefixed an Account of the life and writings of the author, by John Craig, Blackwood and Longmans, Edinburgh and London, 1806; 1990, Introduced by J. V. Price, London, Thoemmes, Bristol

Millar, J. 1803, An Historical View of English Government: from the settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Revolution in 1688; to which are subjoined some dissertations connected with the history of government from the revolution to the present time, ed. J. Craig and J. Milne, 3rd ed. 4 vols. Mawman, London,

Monstequieu, B. 1949 [1748]. Esprit de Lois, The Spirit of the Laws,

Trans. T. Nugent, Intro. Neuman, F. Hafner Publishing, New York;

Mossner, E. C. 1980 (1954). The Life of David Hume, Clarendon Press, Oxford

Noble, A. and Hogg, P. S. eds., 2001. The Canongate Burns: the complete poems and songs of Robert Burns, Canongate Classics, Edinburgh

Pownall, T. 1776.  Letter to Adam Smith, being and Examination of Several Points of Doctrine laid down in his Inquiry, into the Nature and causes of the Wealth of Nations, London

Pufendorf, The Law of Nature and Nations, 1672

Quesnay, F. 1767:  Tableau Economique, in Du Pont de Nemours edition

Reeder, J. 1977. ed. On Moral Sentiments: contemporary responses to Adam Smith, 1977, Thoemmes Press, Bristol

Robertson, W. (1769). Works, 12 vols. Edinburgh, ref. in Ross, 1995, p. 469

Ross, I. S. 1972.  Lord Kames and the Scotland of his Day, Oxford University Press,

Rousseau, J. J. 1984, [1755]. Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality Among Men, Trans. Maurice Cranston, Penguin, London

Rousseau, J. J. Essai sur les origines des langues,

Smiles, S. The Life of Thomas Telford, ‘Roads and Travel in Scotland in the last century’

Steuart, Sir J. 1966 (1767). An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy, 2 vols. Oliver and Boyd, London

Stones, L. 1984, ‘The Life and Career of John Snell, c.1629-1679’, Stair Society Miscellany, 2. pp148-85

Tyler, A. F. 1807. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames, containing sketches of the Progress of Literature and General Improvement in Scotland during the greater part of the eighteenth century, I, 190: 

Young, A. 1771. The Farmer’s Tour through the east of England, being the register of a journey through various counties in this kingdom, to enquire into the state of agriculture, 4 vols. W. Strahan, London

5          Scottish Enlightenment

Buchan, J. 2003. Capital of the Mind: how Edinburgh changed the world, John Murray, London

Chisick, H. 2004. “The representation of Adam Smith and David Hume in the Anne Litteraire and the Journal Encyclopedique, in Scotland and France in the Enlightenment, in D. Dawson and P. Morere, eds. Associated University Presses, Bucknell

Cosh, M. 2003.  Edinburgh: the golden age, John Donald, Edinburgh

Herman, A. 2001: How The Scots Invented the Modern World, Crown Publishing, New York

Fay, C. R. 1950.  Great Britain from Adam Smith to the present day, Longmans Green, London

Fay, C. F. 1956, Adam Smith and the Scotland of his Day, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Fay, C. R. 1960. The World of Adam Smith, Hefner, Cambridge

Forbes, D. 1982. “Natural Law and the Scottish Enlightenment”, in R. H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner, eds. The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment, John Donald, Edinburgh

Haakonssen, K. 1989. “Natural jurisprudence in the Scottish Enlightenment” in N. MacCormick and Z. Bankoski, eds. Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen

Hamowy, R. 1987. The Scottish Enlightenment and the Theory of Spontaneous Order, Southern Illinois Press, Carbondale, Ill.

Hasek, C. W. 1925. The introduction of Adam Smith’s doctrines into Germany, Columbia University Press, New York

Hook, A. and Sher, R. S. eds. 1995. The Glasgow Enlightenment, Tuckwell Press, East Linton

Lehman, W. C. 1971. Henry Home and the Scottish Enlightenment: a study in national character and the history of ideas, The Hague

Lenman, B. 1981. Integration, Enlightenment, and Industrialisation, Scotland 1746-1832, New History of Scotland Series, no. 6, Edward Arnold, London

Raphael, D. D.  1979  “Adam Smith: philosophy, science and social science” in S. C. Brown, ed. Philosophers of the Enlightenment, Harvester press, London

Robertson, J. 1983.  “The Scottish Enlightenment and the limits of the civic tradition”, in Hont and Ignattieff, eds.  Wealth and Virtue: the shaping of political economy in the Scottish enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Robertson, J. 1985. The Scottish Enlightenment and the Militia Issue, John Donald, Edinburgh

Robertson, J. 1997, “The Enlightenment Above National Context: Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Naples,” Historical Journal, 40: 3 667-98.

Sakamoto, T. and Tanaka, T. eds. 2003. The Rise of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, Routledge, London

Shaw,  J. S. 1999. The Political History of Eighteenth Century Scotland, Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, Hamps.

Sher, R. B.  1985. Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

Skinner,  A. S. 1974. “Adam Smith: science and the role of the imagination”, in Hume and the Enlightenment: essays presented to Ernest Campbell Mossner, in W. B. Todd, ed. The Universities of Edinburgh and Texas, Austin

Strang, J. 1857, Glasgow and its Clubs, 2nd ed., R. Griffin, London and Glasgow

6          Classical Economics

Brown, K. and Taylor, W. B., 1994, The Horner Papers, selections from the Letters and Miscelaneous writings of Francis Horner, MP, 1795-1817, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Coats, A. W. ed. 1971a. The Classical Economists and Economic Policy, Debates in Economic History series, Methuen & Co, London

Coats, A. W. 1971b. ‘The Classical Economists and the Labourer’, in Coats 1971a, 144-179

Dwyer, J. 1998, The Age of Passions: an interpretation of Adam Smith and Scottish Enlightenment Culture, Tuckwell, East Lothian

Fetter. F. W. ed. 1957, The Economic Writings of Francis Horner in the Edinburgh Review, 1802-6, Series of reprints of Scarce Works in Political Economy, no 13, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

Lauderdale, Earl of. 1804. An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth, Constable, Edinburgh

Perelman, M. 1984. Classical Political Economy, Rowman & Allanheld, London

Robbins, L.  1952, The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy, Macmillan, London

Skinner, A. S. 1999, “Adam Smith and Physiocracy,” in R.E. Backhouse and J. Creedy (eds), From Classical Economics to the Theory of the Firm: Essays in Honour of D.P. Obrien, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham

 

7          Analysis of Smith’s Political Economy

Ademan, I. 1961. Theories of Economic Growth and Development, Stanford University Press, Stanford

Blaug, M. 1968. Economic Theory in Retrospect, 1968, 2nd Ed., London

Blaug, M. 1971 (1958), ‘The Classical economists and the Factory Acts – a re-examination,’ in Coats, 1971, 104-122

Blaug, M. 1975. The Economics of Education in English Classical Political Economy: a re-examination,’ in Skinner and Wilson, 1975: 568-99

Cairnes,  1874, Leading Principles of Political Economy, ??

Cannan, E. 1893. Theories of Production and Distribution, London

Gray, A. and Thompson, A. E. 1980 [1931]. 2nd ed., The Development of Economic Doctrine, an introductory survey, Longmans, London

Heilbroner, R. L. 1961 [1953]. The Worldly Philosophers: the lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers, Revised Edition, Simon & Schuster, New York; 2000. 7th Edition, Penguin

Heilbroner, R. L. 1982.   “The socialisation in the individual in Adam Smith”, History of Political Economy, 14: 3: 427-439

Heilbroner, R. 1997. Teachings for the Worldly Philosophers, Norton, New York

Hollander, S. 1973. The Economics of Adam Smith, Heinemann, London

Hollander, S., 1987. Classical Economics, Basil Blackwell, Oxford

Hutchison, T. W.  1968. Before Adam Smith, Basil Blackwell, Oxford

Hutchison, T. W.  1976. ‘Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations’, Journal of Law and Economics, 19: 3: 507-527

Johnson, E. A. J. 1937. Predecessors of Adam Smith,  Prentice-Hall. New York

Lowe, A. 1975. ‘Adam Smith’s System of Equilibrium Growth,’ in Skinner and Wilson, 1975: 415-25

Lubasz, H. 1975. ‘Adam Smith and the “Free Market”,’ in Copley and Sutherland, 1975: 45-69

Robbins, L. 1998. A History of Economic Thought: the LSE Lectures, ed. S. G. Medema & W. J. Samuels, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

Schumpeter, J. 1954, History of Economic Analysis, Oxford University Press, New York

Sewall, H, [1901] 1968. The Theory of Value Before Adam Smith, Augustus Kelly Reprint, New York

Walsh & Gran, 1980. Classical and Neoclassical Theories of General Equilibrium: historical origins and mathematical structure, Oxford, New York

 

8          Economic History

Ashton, T. S. 1948. The Industrial Revolution: 1760-1830, Oxford University press, Oxford

Ashton. T. S. 1955. An Economic History of England: the 18th century, London

Braudel, F. [1979], 1985, The Wheels of Commerce, Vol II, Civilisation and Capitalism 15th –18th Century, trans S. Reynolds, Collins, London

Cunningham, W. 1912. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times, 2 vols. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Davis, R. 1954. ‘English foreign trade, 1660-1700, Economic History Review, VII: 2: 257-272

Davis, R. 1966. ‘The rise of protection in England, 1689-1786’, Economic History Review, XCIX: 2: 306-317

Devine, T. W. 1995. ‘The Merchant Class of the Larger Scottish Towns in the 17th and 18th Century’, Exploring the Scottish Past: themes in the history of Scottish Society, Tuckwell Press, East Linton.

Groenewegen, P. 2002. “Adam Smith and the division of labour”, in Eighteenth Century Economics: Turgot, Beccaria and Smith and their Contemporaries, Routledge, KLondon

Hartwell, R. M. ed. 1967. The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, Debates in Economic History, Methuen, London

Hartwell, R. M.  1971. The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth,

Hartwell, R. M. 1976.  ‘Comments’ in Wilson and Skinner, 1976: 33-41

Himmelfarb, G. 1983. The Idea of Poverty: England in the early industrial age, Random House, New York

Hosseini, H. 1998. “Seeking the Roots of the Division of Labor in Medieval Persia.”  History of Political Economy  30,4 (Winter): 653-82. 

John, A. H. 1954. ‘War and the English Economy, 1700-63,’ Economic History Review, 2nd ser., vii

Judges, A. V. 1939. ‘The idea of a mercantile state’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4h series, 21: 41-69

Koebner, R. 1959. ‘Adam Smith and the industrial revolution,’ Economic History Review, XI. 3: 381-391

Lavezzi, A. 2003.  “Smith, Marshall and Young on division of labour and economic growth”, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought,  10: 81-108

Mathias, P. 1975. ‘Swords and Ploughshares: the armed forces, medicine and public health in the late eighteenth century’ in Winter, ed. 1975: 73-90

Negishi, T. 2000. “Adam Smith’s division of labour and structural changes”,  Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 11: 5-11

Smout, T. C. ed. 1986.  Scotland in Europe, 1250-1860, John Donald, Edinburgh

Whatley, A. 1997. The Industrial Revolution in Scotland, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Uglow, J. 2002. The Lunar Men: the friends who made the future, 1730-1810, Faber, London

8a  Economics Before Adam Smith

Clark, H. C. ed. 2993.  Commerce, Culture and Liberty: readings on capitalism before Adam Smith, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana

Force, P. 2003. Self-Interest before Adam Smith: a genealogy of economic science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Hirschman, A. O. 1977. The Passions and the Interests: political arguments for capitalism before its triumph, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.

Johnson, E. A. J. 1937.  Predecessors of Adam Smith, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J.

Meek, R. L. ed.  1973. Precursors of Adam Smith, 1750-1775, Readings in Economic History and Theory, J. M. Dent, London, Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa, NJ

Rashid, C. 1998. The Myth of Adam Smith, Edward Edgar, Cheltenham

Sewall, H. R. [1901] 1973. The Theory of Value Before Adam Smith, Augustus Kelly, New York

Spengler, J. J. and Allen, W. R. 1960. Essays in Economic Thought: Aristotle to Marshall,

Suttle, B. B. 1987. “The passion of self-interest: the development of the idea and its changing status”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, October, 46: 4: 459-472

Tucker. G. L. S. Progress and Profits in British Economic Thought: 1650-1850,

8b Das Adam Smith Problem

Dickey, L. 1986. ‘Historicising the “Adam Smith problem”: conceptual, historiographical, and textual issues’ ”, Journal of Modern History, September, 58: 579-609

Dupuy, Jeab-Pierre. 1993. ‘”A reconsideration of ‘Das Adam Smith Problem’”, Stanford French Review, 17: 1: 45-57

Ortmann, A. 1999, “The Nature and Cause of Corporate Negligence, Sham Lectures and Ecclesiastical Indolence: Adam Smith on Joint-Stock Companies, Teachers, and Preachers.”  History of Political Economy. Summer,  31:2: 297-316

 

8c  Adam Smith on religion

Anderson, G. M.  1988. ‘Mr Smith and the preachers: the economics of religion in the Wealth of Nations’, Journal of Political Economy, 96: 3: 1066-1088

Brubaker, Lauren, 2001, “Adam Smith’s Prudence: religion and the intentions of nature”, University of Chicago Political Theory Workshop, unpublished paper.

Denis, A. 2003 ‘The Invisible Hand of God in Adam Smith’, unpublished PhD thesis, 

Chapter 4, City University, London

Evensky, A. 1998 “Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy: The Role of Religion and Its Relationship to Philosophy and Ethics in the Evolution of Society,” History of Political Economy, Spring

Griswold, Charles, 1997  “Religion and Community: Adam Smith on the Virtues of Liberty.”  Journal of the History of Philosophy 35: 395-419

Heise, P. 1991. “Stoicism in Adam Smith’s model of human behaviour: the philosophical foundation of self-betterment and the invisible hand”, Okonomie und Gesellschaft, 9: 64-78

Hill, L. 2001.  “The hidden theology of Adam Smith”, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 8: 1: 1 -30

Minowitz, P. 1993. Profits, Priests, and Princes: Adam Smith’s Emancipation of Economics from Politics and religion, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA

Ortmann, A. 1999, “The Nature and Cause of Corporate Negligence, Sham Lectures and Ecclesiastical Indolence: Adam Smith on Joint-Stock Companies, Teachers, and Preachers.”  History of Political Economy. Summer,  31:2: 297-316

8d  The invisible hand

Andriopoulos, S. 1999. “The invisible hand: supernatural agency in political economy and gothic novel”, Journal of English Literary History, 66: 739n-758

Denis, A. 2003 ‘The Invisible Hand of God in Adam Smith’, unpublished PhD thesis,  Chapter 4, City University, London

Evensky, A. 1993. “Ethics and the invisible hand”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring, 7: 2, 197-205

Ingrao, B. and Israel, G. 1990. The Invisible Hand: economic equilibrium in the history of science, MIT, Cambridge

Khalil, E. L. 2000. ‘Beyond natural selection and divine intervention: the Lamarckian implications of Adam Smith’s invisible hand’, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 10:373-393

Macfie, A. L. 1971. “The invisible hand of Jupiter”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 32: 4: 595-599

Nicholls, D. 1992. “The invisible hand; providence and the market”, in P. Heelas and P. Morris, eds. The Values of the Enterprise Culture: the moral debate, 217-236,  Routledge, New York

Nozick, R.  1994. “Invisible hand explanations”, American Economic Review, May, 84: 2: 314-318

Way, K. B. 2000.  “Invisible hands and the success if science”, Philosophy of Science, March, 67: 163-75

 

8d  Laissez-faire

Frankel, P. E.. 1980. ‘Laissez Faire in Nineteenth Century Britain: fact or myth?’ Literature of Liberty, vol. III, no. 4, Winter

Gordon, H. S. 1955. ‘The London Economist and the High Tide of Laissez-faire, Journal of Political Economy, vol 63, December: 461-88

Gordon, H. S. 1971. ‘The Ideology of Laissez-faire’ in Coats, ed. 1971: 180-205

Heise, P. 1995. “Stoicism in Adam Smith’s model of human behaviour: the philosophical foundations of self-betterment and the invisible hand”, Perspectives in the History of Economic Thought, XI: 17-30

Rosenberg, N. 1979, ‘Adam Smith and laissez-faire revisited’, in Gerald P. O’Driscoll, ed. Adam Smith and Modern Political Economy, Iowa State University Press

Tribe, K. 1995. ‘Natural Liberty and Laissez-faire: how Adam Smith became a free trade ideologue,’ in Copley and Sutherland, 1995: 23-44

Wehabe, P. H. 2995. …laissez-faire when it was new…: a comment on Emma Rothchild’s Economic Sentiments”, Adam Smith Review, 1: 135-140

8e        The division of labour

McNulty, P. J. 1975.  “A note on the division of labour in Plato and Adam Smith”, History of Political Economy, 7

Meek, R.  and A. S. Skinner 1973. ‘The development of Adam Smith’s ideas on the division of labour’, Economic Journal, December, 83: 1094-1116

Minowitz, P.  1989. ‘Invisible hand, invisible death: Adam Smith on war and socioeconomic development’, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Winter, 17: 305-315

Rosenberg, N. 1965. ‘Adam Smith on the division of labour: two views or one?’, Economica, 32: 127-139

Stigler, G. 1954. “The division of labour is limited by the extent of the market”, Journal of Political Economy, June, LIX: 3: 185-193

West, E. G. 1964. “Adam Smith’s two views on the division of labour”, Economica, 31: 23-32

 

9          Essays on Adam Smith

Adiseshiah, M. S. 1977. Some Thoughts on Adam Smith’s Division of Labour, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India

Ahiakpor, James C.W. 1998, “Did Adam Smith retard the development of Economic Analysis?: of Murray Rothbard’s Interpretation.”  Independent Review, Winter, 3: 3

Alvey, James E. 1998, “Adam Smith’s Higher Vision of Capitalism.”  Journal of Economic Issues, June,  32: 2: 441-49

Anderson, G. M.  1988. ‘Mr Smith and the preachers: the economics of religion in the Wealth of Nations’, Journal of Political Economy, 96: 3: 1066-1088

Anderson, G. M.  1989. ‘The butcher, the baker, and the policy maker: Adam Smith o public choice’, History of Political Economy, 21: 4: 641-659

Anderson, G. M., Shugart II, W. F. and Tollison, R. D. 1985, ‘Adam Smith in the customhouse’, Journal of Political Economy, 93: 41: 740-759

Anderson, G. M. and Tollison, R. D.  1982, ‘Adam Smith’s analysis of joint-stock companies’, Journal of Political Economy. 90: 4: 1237-1256

Andriopoulos, S. 1999. “The invisible hand: supernatural agency in political economy and gothic novel”, Journal of English Literary History, 66: 739n-758

Anspach, R. 1972. ‘The implications of the Theory of Moral Sentiments for Adam Smith’s Economic Thought’, History of Political Economy, 4: 1: 176-206

Backhouse, R. E. ed. Early Histories of Economic Thought, Routledge, London

Berdell, John F. 1998,  “Adam Smith and the Ambiguity of Nations.”  Review of Social economy.  Summer, 56: 2: 175-90.

Berry, C. J. 1989. “Adam Smith: commerce, liberty and modernity”, in P. Gilmour, ed. Philosophers of the Enlightenment, 113-132, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh,

Berry, C. J. 1974. “Adam Smith’s Considerations on language”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 35: 130-138

Berry, C. J. 1992. “Adam Smith and the virtues of commerce” J. W. Chapman and W. A. Galston, eds.  Nomos, 69-88, New York University Press, New York

Berns, L. 1994. “Aristotle and Adam Smith on justice: co-operation between ancients and moderns?”  Review of Metaphysics, 48: 1: 71-90

Bevilacqua, V. M.  1968. “Adam Smith and some philosophical origins of eighteenth-century rhetorical theory”, Modern Language Review, 43: 559-568

Bevilacqua, V. M.  1965-67. “Adam Smith’s lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres”, Studies in Scottish Literature, 3-4: 295-315

Bevilacqua, V. M.  1976. “Classical rhetorical influences in the development of eighteenth-century aesthetic criticism, Transactions of the American Philological Association, 107

Billet, L. 1976. “The just economy: the moral basis of the Wealth of Nations”, Review of Social Economy, 34: 295-315

Bitterman, H. J. 1940. ‘Adam Smith’s empiricism and the law of nature’, Journal of Political Economy, 48: 487-520

Blecker, Robert A. 1997,  “The ‘Unnatural and Retrograde Order’: Adam Smith’s Theories of Trade and Development Reconsidered.”  August, 64: 255: 527-537.

Bloomfield, A. I. 1975. “Adam Smith’s theory of international trade”, in A. S. Skinner and T. Wilson, 1975

Boltanski, Luc, 1999.   Distant Suffering: morality, media and politics, Trans. G. D. Burchell, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,

Bonar, J. 1926. “The Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith, 1759”, Journal of the Philosophical Society, 1

Bonar, J. [1894] 1966. A catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith, Macmillan, New York, Augustus M. Kelly, Reprints of economics classics series, New York

Brewer, Anthony. 2000, “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Concept of Economic Growth.”  History of Political Economy.  Summer,31: 2, 237-55.

Brown, K. L. 1992. “Dating Adam Smith’s essay of the ‘External Senses’ “, Journal of the History of Ideas, 53: 333- 337

Brown, M. 1988, Adam Smith’s Economics: Its Place in the Development of Economic Thought, Croom Helm

Brown, V. 1991. “Signifying voices.  Reading the ‘Adam Smith Problem’, Economies and Philosophy,

Brown, V. 1994, Adam Smith’s Discourse: canonicity, commerce and discourse, Routledge, London

Brown, V. 1997,’Mere Inventions of the Imagination: a survey of recent literature on Adam Smith,’ Economics and Philosophy, 13: 2: 281-312

Brown, V. 1997, “Dialogism, the Gaze and the Emergence of Economic Discourse.”  New Literary History, Autumn, 28, 4: 697-709.

Brubaker, Lauren, 2001, “Adam Smith’s Prudence: religion and the intentions of nature”, University of Chicago Political Theory Workshop, unpublished paper.

Calkins, M.J. and Werhane, P.H. 1998,  “Adam Smith, Aristotle and the virtues of commerce”,  Journal of Value Inquiry, March, 32:1: 43-60.

Campbell, T. D. 1971 Adam Smith’s Science of Morals, Alan & Unwin, London

-------------- 1975. ‘Scientific Explanation and Ethical Justification in the Theory of Moral Sentiments’, in A. S. Skinner and T. Wilson, 68-82 

-------------- 1981. ‘The utilitarianism of Adam Smith’s policy advice’, Journal of the History of Ideas, (vlii) 42: 73-92

Campbell, T. D. and Ross, I. 1982, “The theory and practice of the wise and virtuous man: reflections on Adam Smith’s response to Hume’s deathbed wish”, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 11: 65-75

Campbell, W. F. 1967. “Adam Smith’s theory of justice, prudence and beneficence”,  American Economic Review, papers and Proceedings, 57

Cannan. E. 1926. ‘Adam Smith as an economist’, Economica, 6: 123-134

Cannan, E. ed. 1928. Adam Smith Lectures Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Publication of the Wealth of Nations, University of Chicago Press, Chicago

Carpenter, K. E. 2002. The Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in French and in France, 1776-1843, The Bibliographical Society of America

Caton, H. 1985. ‘The preindustrial economics of Adam Smith’, Journal of Economic History, 45: 833-853

Caton, H. 1998. “Adam Smith’s legacy”, in The Politics of Progress: the origins an development of the commercial republic, 1600-1835, 348-356, University of Florida Press, Gainesville

Clark, H. C. 1992. “Conversation and moderate virtue in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments”, The Review of Politics, 54: 185-210

Clark, H. C. 1993. “Women and humanity in Scottish enlightenment social thought: the case of Adam Smith, Historical Reflections, 19: 335-361

Clark, H. C. ed. 2003.  Commerce, Culture and Liberty: readings on capitalism before Adam Smith, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana

Clayden, P. W. 1887, The Early Life of Samuel Rogers, Smith Elder & Co. London

Cliffe Leslie, T. E. [1870] 1879. “The Political Economy of Adam Smith”, in Essays in Political and Moral Philosophy, 148-166, Hodges, Foster & Figgis, Dublin

Coase, R. H. 1976. ‘Adam Smith’s views of man’, Journal of Law and Economics, 19:  538-539

Coats, A. A. W. 1962. “Adam Smith: the modern reappraisal”,  Renaissance and Modern Studies, 6: 25-48

Cohn, G. [1873], 2000. “The history and present state of political economy in Germany”, in Mizuta, H. ed. Adam Smith: critical responses, 1: 63-74, Routledge, London

Cohn, G. [1894], 2000. “A History of political economy” in Backhouse, R. E. ed. Early Histories of Economic Thought, Routledge, London

Cooke, C. A. 1935. “Adam Smith and jurisprudence”, Law Quarterly Review, 51

Cole, A. H. 1958. “Puzzles of the Wealth of Nations”, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, 24: 1-8

Collings, D. and Ortmannn, A. 1997.   “Reading Adam Smith’s discourse: a review essay”,   Research into the History of Economic Thought and Research Methodology, 15: 329-336

Copley, S. and Sutherland, K. eds. 1995. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations: new interdisciplinary essays, Manchester University Press, Manchester

Cordasco, F., and Franklin, B. 1950. Adam Smith: a bibliographical checklist, Franklin, New York

Costelloe, Timothy M. 1997, “Contract or Coincidence: George Herbert Mead and Adam Smith on Self and Society.”   History of the Human Sciences.  May, 10:2: 81-99.

Cremaschi, S. 1989. “Adam Smith: sceptical Newtonism, disenchanted republicanism, and the birth of social science”, in M. Dascal and O. Gruebgard, eds, Case Studies on the Relationship between Epistemology and Political Philosophy, Westview Press, Boulder

Cropsey, J. [1951] 2001. Polity and Economy, with Further Thoughts on the Principles of Adam Smith, St Augustine’s Press, Indiana

Cropsey, J. 1957.  Polity and Economy: an interpretation of the principles of Adam Smith, Matinus Nijhoff, The Hague,

Cropsey, J. 1975. “Adam Smith and political philosophy”, in A. S. Skinner and T. Wilson, eds. Essays in Adam Smith, Clarendon Press, Oxford

Danford, J. 1980. ‘Adam Smith, equality and the wealth of sympathy’, American Journal of Political Science, November, 24: 674-695

Dankers, C. E. 1974, Adam Smith: Man of Letters and Economics, Exposition Press, Hicksville, NY

Darwell, Stephen. 1999,  “Sympathetic Liberalism: Recent Work on Adam Smith.”  Philosophy and Public Affairs, Spring, 28: 2: 139-65

Darwell, Stephen. 2005.  “Equal dignity in Adam Smith”,  Adam Smith Review, 1: 129-134. 

Den, Uyl, Douglas,  J.  and Griswold, C. L. 1996. ‘Adam Smith on friendship and love’, Review of Metaphysics, March, 49: 609-637

Denis, A. 1999,  “Was Adam Smith an Individualist?”  History of the Human Sciences, August, 12: 3

Denis, A. 2003 ‘The Invisible Hand of God in Adam Smith’, unpublished PhD thesis,  Chapter 4, City University, London

Dickey, L. 1986. ‘Historicising the “Adam Smith problem”: conceptual, historiographical, and textual issues’ ”, Journal of Modern History, September, 58: 3:  579-609

Dome, Takuo. 1998, “Adam Smith’s Theory of Tax Incidence: An Interpretation of his Natural-Price System.”  Cambridge Journal of Economics  22: 1: 79-89.

Dow, S. C. 1987. “The Scottish political economy tradition”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 34: 4: 335-348

Dugi, Don Thomas. 1999,  “Adam Smith.”  Great Thinkers of the Western World  

Dupuy, Jeab-Pierre. 1993. ‘”A reconsideration of ‘Das Adam Smith Problem’”, Stanford French Review, 17: 1: 45-57

Dwyer, J. 1992. “Virtue and improvement: the civic world of Adam Smith”, in P. Jones and A. S, Skinner, Adam Smith Reviewed, 190-216, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Earle, E. M. 1986. ‘Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List: the economic foundations of military power’, in Peter Paret, ed., Makers of Modern Strategy,: 217-261, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

Eckstein, W. [1926] 2000. “Introduction to the Theory of Moral Sentiments”, im H. Mizuta, ed. 12-49, 

Eltis, W. 1975. ‘Adam Smith’s Theory of Economic Growth’, in Skinner