New Voices on Adam Smith (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

388 Pages·2006·1.17 MB·English

by  Leonidas Montes

New Voices on Adam Smith
There is a general resurgence of interest in the writings and significance
of Adam Smith. This volume includes fourteen original, commissioned
and refereed papers by already established young scholars who have
recently finished their PhD dissertations on Adam Smith or a closely
related topic. The international and multidisciplinary character of all
these contributions reflects the intellectual fertility of Smith’s works.
Issues ranging from analysis of Smith’s sources, economics, philosophy,
ethics, aesthetics, and politics to penetrating treatment of Smith’s rele-
vance in recent discussions of gender, cultural diversity, or environmental
protection make this volume a must for all those interested in his legacy.
The book is a useful first introduction to the state of the art in scholarship
on Adam Smith as well as a provocative reorientation for those familiar
with long-standing debates on Smith’s continuing importance.
Leonidas Montes is Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad
Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Chile. Eric Schliesseris Assistant Professor in the
Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Research
Fellow, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Department of
Philosophy, Leiden University and Research Associate, Amsterdam
Research Group in History and Methodology of Economics, University of
Amsterdam.
Routledge studies in the history of economics
1 Economics as Literature 8 The History of Game Theory I
Willie Henderson From the beginnings to 1945
Robert W. Dimand and
2 Socialism and Marginalism in Mary Ann Dimand
Economics 1870–1930
Edited by Ian Steedman 9 The Economics of W. S. Jevons
Sandra Peart
3 Hayek’s Political Economy
The socio-economics of order 10 Gandhi’s Economic Thought
Steve Fleetwood Ajit K. Dasgupta
4 On the Origins of Classical 11 Equilibrium and Economic
Economics Theory
Distribution and value from Edited by Giovanni Caravale
William Petty to Adam Smith
Tony Aspromourgos 12 Austrian Economics in Debate
Edited by Willem Keizer, Bert Tieben
5 The Economics of Joan and Rudy van Zijp
Robinson
Edited by Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, 13 Ancient Economic Thought
Luigi Pasinetti and Edited by B. B. Price
Alesandro Roncaglia
14 The Political economy of Social
6 The Evolutionist Economics of Credit and Guild Socialism
Léon Walras Frances Hutchinson and
Albert Jolink Brian Burkitt
7 Keynes and the ‘Classics’ 15 Economic Careers
A study in language, Economics and economists in
epistemology and mistaken Britain 1930–1970
identities Keith Tribe
Michel Verdon
16 Understanding ‘Classical’ 25 Marx’s Concept of Money: the
Economics God of Commodities
Studies in the long-period theory Anitra Nelson
Heinz Kurz and Neri Salvadori
26 The Economics of James Steuart
17 History of Environmental Edited by Ramón Tortajada
Economic Thought
E. Kula 27 The Development of Economics
in Europe since 1945
18 Economic Thought in Edited by A. W. Bob Coats
Communist and Post-
28 The Canon in the History of
Communist Europe
Economics
Edited by Hans-Jürgen Wagener
Critical essays
Edited by Michalis Psalidopoulos
19 Studies in the History of French
Political Economy
29 Money and Growth
From Bodin to Walras
Selected papers of Allyn Abbott
Edited by Gilbert Faccarello
Young
Edited by Perry G. Mehling and
20 The Economics of John Rae
Roger J. Sandilands
Edited by O. F. Hamouda, C. Lee
and D. Mair
30 The Social Economics of Jean-
Baptiste Say
21 Keynes and the Neoclassical
Markets and virtue
Synthesis
Evelyn L. Forget
Einsteinian versus Newtonian
macroeconomics
31 The Foundations of Laissez-faire
Teodoro Dario Togati
The economics of Pierre de
Boisguilbert
22 Historical Perspectives on
Gilbert Faccarello
Macroeconomics
Sixty years after the General 32 John Ruskin’s Political Economy
Theory Willie Henderson
Edited by Philippe Fontaine and
Albert Jolink 33 Contributions to the History of
Economic Thought
23 The Founding of Institutional Essays in honour of
Economics R. D. C. Black
The leisure class and sovereignty Edited by Antoin E. Murphy and
Edited by Warren J. Samuels Renee Prendergast
24 Evolution of Austrian 34 Towards an Unknown Marx
Economics A commentary on the
From Menger to Lachmann manuscripts of 1861–1863
Sandye Gloria Enrique Dussel
35 Economics and Interdisciplinary 43 The Contribution of Joseph
Exchange Schumpeter to Economics
Edited by Guido Erreygers Economic development and
institutional change
36 Economics as the Art of Richard Arena and Cecile Dangel
Thought
Essays in memory of 44 On the Development of Long-
G. L. S. Shackle run Neoclassical Theory
Edited by Stephen F. Frowen and Tom Kompas
Peter Earl
45 F.A. Hayek as a Political
37 The Decline of Ricardian Economist
Economics Economic analysis and values
Politics and economics in post- Edited by Jack Birner,
Ricardian theory Pierre Garrouste and Thierry Aimar
Susan Paskoff
46 Pareto, Economics and Society
38 Piero Sraffa The mechanical analogy
His life, thought and cultural Michael McLure
heritage
Alessandro Roncaglia 47 The Cambridge Controversies
in Capital Theory
39 Equilibrium and Disequilibrium A study in the logic of theory
in Economic Theory development
The Marshall–Walras divide Jack Birner
Michel de Vroey
48 Economics Broadly Considered
40 The German Historical School Essays in honor of
The historical and ethical Warren J. Samuels
approach to economics Edited by Steven G. Medema,
Edited by Yuichi Shionoya Jeff Biddle and John B. Davis
41 Reflections on the Classical 49 Physicians and Political Economy
Canon in Economics Six studies of the work of
Essays in honor of doctor-economists
SamuelHollander Edited by Peter Groenewegen
Edited by Sandra Peart and
Evelyn Forget 50 The Spread of Political
Economy and the
42 Piero Sraffa’s Political Economy Professionalisation of
A centenary estimate Economists
Edited by Terenzio Cozzi and Economic societies in Europe,
Roberto Marchionatti America and Japan in the
nineteenth century
Massimo Augello and Marco Guidi
51 Historians of Economics and 59 Marshall’s Evolutionary
Economic Thought Economics
The construction of disciplinary Tiziano Raffaelli
memory
Steven G. Medema and 60 Money, Time and Rationality in
Warren J. Samuels Max Weber
Austrian connections
52 Competing Economic Theories Stephen D. Parsons
Essays in memory of Giovanni
Caravale 61 Classical Macroeconomics
Sergio Nisticò and Domenico Tosato Some modern variations and
distortions
53 Economic Thought and Policy James C. W. Ahiakpor
in Less Developed Europe
The nineteenth century 62 The Historical School of
Edited by Michalis Psalidopoulos Economics in England and
and Maria-Eugenia Almedia Mata Japan
Tamotsu Nishizawa
54 Family Fictions and Family Facts
Harriet Martineau, Adolphe 63 Classical Economics and
Quetelet and the population Modern Theory
question in England 1798–1859 Studies in long-period analysis
Brian Cooper Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori
55 Eighteenth-Century Economics 64 A Bibliography of Female
Peter Groenewegen Economic Thought to 1940
Kirsten K. Madden, Janet A. Sietz
56 The Rise of Political Economy and Michele Pujol
in the Scottish Enlightenment
Edited by Tatsuya Sakamoto and 65 Economics, Economists and
Hideo Tanaka Expectations
From microfoundations to
57 Classics and Moderns in macroeconomics
Economics I Warren Young, Robert Leeson and
Essays on nineteenth and William Darity Jnr
twentieth century economic
thought 66 The Political Economy of Public
Peter Groenewegen Finance in Britain 1767–1873
Takuo Dome
58 Classics and Moderns in
Economics II 67 Essays in the History of
Essays on nineteenth and Economics
twentieth century economic Warren J. Samuels,
thought Willie Henderson, Kirk D. Johnson
Peter Groenewegen and Marianne Johnson
68 History and Political Economy 76 At the Origins of Mathematical
Essays in honour of P. D. Economics
Groenewegen The economics of A. N. Isnard
Edited by Tony Aspromourgos and (1748–1803)
John Lodewijks Richard van den Berg
69 The Tradition of Free Trade 77 Money and Exchange
Lars Magnusson Folktales and reality
Sasan Fayazmanesh
70 Evolution of the Market Process
Austrian and Swedish 78 Economic Development and
economics Social Change
Edited by Michel Bellet, Historical roots and modern
Sandye Gloria-Palermo and perspectives
Abdallah Zouache George Stathakis and Gianni Vaggi
71 Consumption as an Investment 79 Ethical Codes and Income
The fear of goods from Hesiod Distribution
to Adam Smith A study of John Bates’ Clark and
Cosimo Perrotta Thorstein Veblen
Guglielmo Forges Davanzati
72 Jean-Baptiste Say and the
Classical Canon in Economics 80 Evaluating Adam Smith
The British connection in CreatingThe Wealth of Nations
French classicism Willie Henderson
Samuel Hollander
81 Civil Happiness
73 Knut Wicksell on Poverty Economics and human
No place is too exalted flourishing in historical
Knut Wicksell perspective
Luigino Bruni
74 Economists in Cambridge
A study through their 82 New Voices on Adam Smith
correspondence 1907–1946 Edited by Leonidas Montes and Eric
Edited by M. C. Marcuzzo and Schliesser
A. Rosselli
75 The Experiment in the History
of Economics
Edited by Philippe Fontaine and
Robert Leonard
New Voices on Adam
Smith
Edited by Leonidas Montes and
Eric Schliesser
With a foreword by Knud Haakonssen
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