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ESSAYS ON ADAM SMITH THE GLASGOW EDITION OF THE WORKS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ADAM SMITH Commissioned by the University of Glasgow to celebrate the bicentenary of the Wealth of Nations THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS Edited by a. l. macfie and d. d. Raphael ii AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS Edited by r. h. Campbell and a. s. skinner; textual editor w. b. todd hi ESSAYS ON PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS (and Miscellaneous Pieces) Edited by w. p. d, wightman IV LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES Edited by j. c. bryce This volume includes the Considerations concerning the First Formation of Languages v LECTURES ON JURISPRUDENCE Edited by r. l. meek, d. d. Raphael, and p. g. stein This volume includes two reports of Smith’s course together with the ‘Early Draft’ of the Wealth of Nations VI CORRESPONDENCE OF ADAM SMITH Edited by e. c. mossner and i. s. ross Associated volumes: ESSAYS ON ADAM SMITH Edited by a. s. skinner and t. wilson LIFE OF ADAM SMITH By i. s. ross ESSAYS ON ADAM SMITH EDITED BY ANDREW S. SKINNER AND THOMAS WILSON CLARENDON PRESS .OXFORD I975 Oxford University Press, Ely House, London W. i GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON CAPE TOWN IBADAN NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM LUSAKA ADDIS ABABA DELHI BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI LAHORE DACCA KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE HONG KONG TOKYO ISBN O IQ 828191 9 © Oxford University Press 1975 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may by reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press Printed in Great Britain by William Clowes & Sons, Limited, London, Beccles and Colchester Acknowledgements T he publishers are indebted to the following for permission to reprint a number of articles in this volume. In Part I, Professor Cropsey’s article is reprinted through the generosity of Rand McNally and originally appeared in History of Political Philosophy, ed. Strauss and Cropsey (1963). Professor Howell’s piece is reprinted with the permission of Princeton University Press, and appeared in his Eighteenth Century British Logic and Rhetoric (1971). Professor Raphael’s article is reprinted (with slight revision) by kind permission of the British Academy, from their Proceedings, vol. lviii (1972). Professor Stigler’s article has appeared in abbreviated form in History of Political Economy, vol. iii (Fall, 1971). In Part II, the first article is based on pp. 133-43 °f Professor Hol¬ lander’s Economics of Adam Smith (1973) and is reprinted by kind permis¬ sion of the University of Toronto Press and Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. Article VI, by Professor Rosenberg has been published in the Journal of Political Economy (1974). Article VIII is adapted from pp. 165-6, 168-9, I77_9 in On Economic Knowledge by Adolph Lowe. Copyright 1965 by Adolph Lowe. Reprinted by permission of Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc. £?163i Contents Abbreviations ix Editorial Note x PART I Analytical Table of Contents of Part I xiii Introduction i • I. Adam Smith’s Lectures on Rhetoric: an Historical Assessment W. S. Howell ii II. Adam Smith and the History of Ideas W. P. D. Wightman 44 III. Scientific Explanation and Ethical Justification in the Moral Senti¬ ments T. D. Campbell 68 IV. The Impartial Spectator D. D. Raphael 83 V. The Topicality of Adam Smith’s Notion of Sympathy and Judicial Evaluations L. Bagolini ioo VI. Moral Philosophy and Civil Society H. Mizuta 114 VII. Adam Smith and Political Philosophy J. Cropsey 132 ^VIII. Adam Smith: an Economic Interpretation of History A. S. Skinner 154 • IX. Sceptical Whiggism, Commerce, and Liberty D. Forbes 179 X. Adam Smith and the Colonial Disturbances D. Stevens 202 ' XI. Adam Smith and the Mercantile System A. W. Coats 218 XII. Smith’s Travels on the Ship of State G. J. Stigler 237 XIII. Adam Smith’s First Russian Followers A. H. Brown 247 -f XIV. The Conflict between Montesquieu and Hume: A Study of the Origins of Adam Smith’s Universalism P. E. Chamley 274 Vlll Contents PART II Analytical Table of Contents of Part II 309 - I. On the Role of Utility and Demand in The Wealth of Nations S. Hollander 313 -f- II. Ricardo and Adam Smith M. H. Dobb 324 III. Compensating Wage Differentials A. Rees 336 IV. Adam Smith on Competition and Increasing Returns G. B. Richardson ^0 '/ V. Some Aspects of the Treatment of Capital in The Wealth of Nations M. Bowley 361 VI. Adam Smith on Profits—Paradox Lost and Regained N. Rosen¬ berg 377 VII. Adam Smith and Society’s Decision-makers J. Spengler 39° VIII. Adam Smith’s System of Equilibrium Growth A. Lowe 4i5 ~>IX. Adam Smith’s Theory of Economic Growth W. A. Eltis 426 X. Adam Smith and the Theory of International Trade A. I. Bloom¬ field 455 XI. Adam Smith and the Status of the Theory of Money D. Vickers 482 XII. Adam Smith and the Bankers S. G. Checkland 5°4 XIII. The Paradox of Progress: Decline and Decay on The Wealth of Nations R. L. Heilbroner 524 XIV. Adam Smith and Alienation E. G. West 54° XV. The Treatment of the Principles of Public Finance in The Wealth of Nations A. T. Peacock 553 XVI. The Economics of Education in English Classical Political Economy: A Re-examination M. Blaug 568 # Some Concluding Reflections T. Wilson 600 Table of Corresponding Passages of The Wealth of Nations 613 Index ^39 Abbreviations Corr. Correspondence ED ‘Early Draft’ of The Wealth of Nations EPS Essays on Philosophical Subjects (which include:) Ancient Logics ‘History of the Ancient Logics and Metaphysics’ Ancient Physics ‘History of the Ancient Physics’ Astronomy ‘History of Astronomy’ English and Italian ‘Of the Affinity between certain English and Verses Italian Verses’ External Senses ‘Of the External Senses’ Imitative Arts ‘Of the Nature of that Imitation which takes place in what are called the Imitative Arts’ Music, Dancing, ‘Of the Affinity between Music, Dancing and and Poetry Poetry’ Stewart Dugald Stewart, ‘Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, ll.d.’ FA, FB Two fragments on the division of labour, Buchan Papers, Glasgow University Library. LJ (A) Lectures on Jurisprudence: Report of 1762-63 LJ (B) Lectures on Jurisprudence: Report dated 1766 LRBL Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres TMS The Theory of Moral Sentiments WN The Wealth of Nations Editorial Note R eferences to Smith’s published works are given by citing part, l. section, and paragraph number. For example, the reference ‘TMS I.iii.2.2’ indicates a reference to Part I, section iii, chapter 2, paragraph 2. The statement ‘WN I.x.b.i’ indicates a reference to the WN Book I, chapter x, section b, paragraph 1. Astronomy, 1.4 refers to section I, paragraph 4. The Table of Corresponding Passages which is appended to this volume identifies the sections into which the WN is divided and provides the page references for each paragraph in the Cannan editions of 1930 and 1937. It should thus be possible to trace references to either of these editions, and to the Glasgow edition. Unless otherwise stated, references in the text are to the 1930 edition. In the case of the lecture notes we have followed the following practice: references to the LRBL are given in the form ‘LRBL 2.8’, indicating a reference to lecture 2, paragraph 8. In the Lectures on Jurisprudence we have cited the volume and page reference from the original manuscripts (all of which will be included in the new edition) while retaining page references to the Cannan edition as supplied by the contributors. References to the Correspondence give date of letter and letter number from the new edition.

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