"This excellent book brings together the major contributions to the study of David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Scottish Enlightenment by Tatsuya Sakamoto, a leading Japanese scholar of the history of social and economic thought."Estrella Trincado, History of Political Economy"This excellent book brings together the major contributions to the study of David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Scottish Enlightenment by Tatsuya Sakamoto, a leading Japanese scholar of the history of social and economic thought. Sakamoto has studied the connections between the intellectual history of the East and the West, and, in the final section of this book, he explores how Smith’s ideas have influenced Japanese intellectuals since the early Meiji period."-Estrella Trincado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, HOPE reviews