Vivienne Brown is Professor of Intellectual History at the Open university, UK.

• Articles 1. New light on the publication and reception of the Wealth of Nations Richard B. Sher 2. Adam Smith and disequilibrium economic history Takashi Negishi 3. 'Great works upon the anvil' in 1785: Adam Smith's projected corpus of philosophy Ian Simpson Ross^l 4. A very cautious,or a very polite, Dr Smith?: hedging in the Wealth of Nations Willie Henderson^l Translation 5. Introduction to Translation Christel Fricke 6. Universalistically approved intersubjective attitudes: Adam Smith Ernst Tugendhat (translated by Bernard Schriebl) Perspectives on recent developments in Adam Smith scholarship 7. Reading Adam Smith in the light of the Classics Gloria Vivenza Symposium on Emma Rothschild's Economic Sentiments 8. Symposium Introduction Ryan Patrick Hanley, Guest Editor) 9. Equal dignity in Adam Smith Stephen Darwall 10. ...laissez-faire when it was new... Patricia Werhane 11. Smith's ambiguities Samuel Fleischcker 12. Dignity or meanness Emma Rothschild 13. Suffering and Distance: Morality, Media and Politics Luc Boltanski 14. Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in France Kenneth E. Carpenter 15. Adam Smith and the Classics Gloria Vivenza 16. Weinstein On Adam Smith Jack Russell