The Adam Smith Review

Fonna Forman is a professor of political science and founding director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego, USA. She is the editor of The Adam Smith Review on behalf of the International Adam Smith Society.

Editorial introduction

Glasgow symposium: On morality and justice in Adam Smith

Introduction

CRAIG SMITH

Smith's sentimentalist conception of self-command

LAUREN KOPAJTIC

Adam Smith's moral decision-making process

ANTONINO FALDUTO

Smith's virtue ethics and the derivative value of character

AINO LAHDENRANTA

Adam Smith on resentment, justice, and desert

JONATHAN JACOBS

Commutative, distributive, and estimative justice in Adam Smith

DANIEL B. KLEIN

Two superiors, two jural relationships in Adam Smith

JONATHAN DIESEL

Deference to authority in Adam Smith

SPIROS TEGOS

Deriving 'general principles': Adam Smith's use of equilibrium and comparative statics analysis

GLORY LIU AND BARRY R. WEINGAST

The necessity of convenienc: Adam Smith's conjectural history of the human niche

ZEV TRACHTENBERG

Adam Smith as political problem solver: The 'Project of Empire' and the American War of Independence

LISA HILL

University of Palermo symposium: Multidisciplinary studies on Adam Smith’s thought – epistemology, economics, and law

Introduction

FABRIZIO SIMON

Studying Adam Smith: The experience of a scholar – some introductive refl ections

PIERO BARUCCI

Ancient and modern sources in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

GLORIA VIVENZA

Can scientific explanations reveal the ultimate laws of nature? The limits of philosophical enquiries in the posthumously published Essays of Adam Smith

NATALIA BORZA

Sensationism and the moral sentiments: P.L. Roederer’s reading of Smith’s system of sympathy

RICHARD VAN DEN BERG

The impartial spectator and the strictness of rules

MARIO J. RIZZO

Persistent inefficiency: Adam Smith's theory of slavery and its abolition in Western Europe

BARRY R. WEINGAST

Articles

Exploring the continuity in Adam Smith’s thought: Chapter II (Part V) of The Theory of Moral Sentiments

MICHELE BEE

Adam Smith goes Dutch: The Reception of Smith in the Netherlands (1759–1800)

JOOST HENGSTMENGEL

Book Reviews

Charles L. Griswold, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter

REVIEWED BY GLORY M. LIU

Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought

REVIEWED BY REINHARD SCHUMACHER

Cecil E. Bohanon and Michelle Albert Vachris, Pride and Profit: The Intersection of Jane Austen and Adam Smith

REVIEWED BY CHRISTEL FRICKE

Ryan Patrick Hanley, ed. Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy

REVIEWED BY EMILY SKARBEK