Adam Smith (1723–1790)

Edited by the late Mark Blaug, former Professor Emeritus, University of London and Professor Emeritus, University of Buckingham, UK

• Introduction, Mark Blaug; Edmund Burke as an economist, D. Barrington; the classical theory of economic growth, A. Lowe; history and political economy - Smith, Marx and Marshall, P.D. Groenewegen; Adam Smith's analysis of joint-stock companies, G.M. Anderson; science and the legislator - Adam Smith and after, D. Winch; was Adam Smith right after all?, another test of the theory of compensating wage differentials, G.J. Duncan; Thomas Reid on Adam Smith's theory of morals, J.C. Steward-Robertson and D.F. Norton; the hauteur of Adam Smith - an unpublished letter from James Anderson of Monkshill, A.C. Dow; Adam Smith in the customhouse, G.M. Anderson, W.F. Shughard 11 and R.D. Tollison; Adam Smith and the prisoner's dilemma, G. Tullock; natural price and the impartial spectator - a new perspective on Adam Smith as a social economist, J.T. Young; Smith, Steuart and mercantilism, S. Rashid; Adam Smith and the natural progress of opulence, P. Bowles; on Adam Smith's lectures on jurisprudence, E. Pesciarelli; Smith, Bentham and the development of contrasting ideas on entrepreneurship, E. Pesciarelli.