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 introductionGlasgow symposium: On morality and justice in Adam SmithIntroductionCRAIG SMITHSmith's sentimentalist conception of self-commandLAUREN KOPAJTICAdam Smith's moral decision-making processANTONINO FALDUTOSmith's virtue ethics and the derivative value of characterAINO LAHDENRANTAAdam Smith on resentment, justice, and desertJONATHAN JACOBSCommutative, distributive, and estimative justice in Adam SmithDANIEL B. KLEINTwo superiors, two jural relationships in Adam SmithJONATHAN DIESELDeference to authority in Adam SmithSPIROS TEGOSDeriving 'general principles': Adam Smith's use of equilibrium and comparative statics analysis GLORY LIU AND BARRY R. WEINGASTThe necessity of convenienc: Adam Smith's conjectural history of the human nicheZEV TRACHTENBERGAdam Smith as political problem solver: The 'Project of Empire' and the American War of IndependenceLISA HILLUniversity of Palermo symposium: Multidisciplinary studies on Adam Smith’s thought – epistemology, economics, and lawIntroductionFABRIZIO SIMONStudying Adam Smith: The experience of a scholar – some introductive refl ectionsPIERO BARUCCIAncient and modern sources in Adam Smith’s Wealth of NationsGLORIA VIVENZACan scientific explanations reveal the ultimate laws of nature? The limits of philosophical enquiries in the posthumously published Essays of Adam SmithNATALIA BORZASensationism and the moral sentiments: P.L. Roederer’s reading of Smith’s system of sympathyRICHARD VAN DEN BERGThe impartial spectator and the strictness of rulesMARIO J. RIZZOPersistent inefficiency: Adam Smith's theory of slavery and its abolition in Western Europe BARRY R. WEINGASTArticlesExploring the continuity in Adam Smith’s thought: Chapter II (Part V) of The Theory of Moral SentimentsMICHELE BEEAdam Smith goes Dutch: The Reception of Smith in the Netherlands (1759–1800)JOOST HENGSTMENGELBook ReviewsCharles L. Griswold, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical EncounterREVIEWED BY GLORY M. LIUDennis C. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern ThoughtREVIEWED BY REINHARD SCHUMACHERCecil E. Bohanon and Michelle Albert Vachris, Pride and Profit: The Intersection of Jane Austen and Adam SmithREVIEWED BY CHRISTEL FRICKERyan Patrick Hanley, ed. Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and LegacyREVIEWED BY EMILY SKARBEK