Major Works

• “Adam Smith as a Person”

  - Bagehot, Walter. “Adam Smith as a Person.” The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot 3 (1876): 113–19.
  Excerpt: “Of Adam Smith’s Political Economy almost an infinite quantity has been said, but very little has been said as to Adam Smith himself. And yet not only was he one of the most curious of human beings, but his books can hardly be understood… More

• Life of Adam Smith

  - Rae, John. Life of Adam Smith. Cosimo Classics, 2006.
  Excerpt: “ADAM SMITH was born at Kirkcaldy, in the county of Fife, Scotland, on the 5th of June 1723. He was the son of Adam Smith, Writer to the Signet, Judge Advocate for Scotland and Comptroller of the Customs in the Kirkcaldy district, by Margaret,… More

• Authentic Adam Smith: Hs Life and Ideas

  - Buchan, James. Authentic Adam Smith: Hs Life and Ideas. New York, NY: W W Norton & Co, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Celebrated author James Buchan on the widely known—but often misread—Scottish philosopher Adam Smith. Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and small… More

• Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

  - Phillipson, N. T. Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life. New Haven [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “The great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (1723–90) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that… More

• The Life of Adam Smith

  - Ross, Ian Simpson, and Adam T Smith. The Life of Adam Smith. Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith’s life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has… More

Other Works

• “Adam Smith as a Person”

  - Bagehot, Walter. “Adam Smith as a Person.” The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot 3 (1876): 113–19.
  Excerpt: “Of Adam Smith’s Political Economy almost an infinite quantity has been said, but very little has been said as to Adam Smith himself. And yet not only was he one of the most curious of human beings, but his books can hardly be understood… More

• Life of Adam Smith

  - Rae, John. Life of Adam Smith. Cosimo Classics, 2006.
  Excerpt: “ADAM SMITH was born at Kirkcaldy, in the county of Fife, Scotland, on the 5th of June 1723. He was the son of Adam Smith, Writer to the Signet, Judge Advocate for Scotland and Comptroller of the Customs in the Kirkcaldy district, by Margaret,… More

• Authentic Adam Smith: Hs Life and Ideas

  - Buchan, James. Authentic Adam Smith: Hs Life and Ideas. New York, NY: W W Norton & Co, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Celebrated author James Buchan on the widely known—but often misread—Scottish philosopher Adam Smith. Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and small… More

• Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

  - Phillipson, N. T. Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life. New Haven [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “The great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (1723–90) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that… More

• The Life of Adam Smith

  - Ross, Ian Simpson, and Adam T Smith. The Life of Adam Smith. Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith’s life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has… More

Commentary

• “Adam Smith as a Person”

  - Bagehot, Walter. “Adam Smith as a Person.” The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot 3 (1876): 113–19.
  Excerpt: “Of Adam Smith’s Political Economy almost an infinite quantity has been said, but very little has been said as to Adam Smith himself. And yet not only was he one of the most curious of human beings, but his books can hardly be understood… More

• Life of Adam Smith

  - Rae, John. Life of Adam Smith. Cosimo Classics, 2006.
  Excerpt: “ADAM SMITH was born at Kirkcaldy, in the county of Fife, Scotland, on the 5th of June 1723. He was the son of Adam Smith, Writer to the Signet, Judge Advocate for Scotland and Comptroller of the Customs in the Kirkcaldy district, by Margaret,… More

• Authentic Adam Smith: Hs Life and Ideas

  - Buchan, James. Authentic Adam Smith: Hs Life and Ideas. New York, NY: W W Norton & Co, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Celebrated author James Buchan on the widely known—but often misread—Scottish philosopher Adam Smith. Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and small… More

• Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

  - Phillipson, N. T. Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life. New Haven [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “The great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (1723–90) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that… More

• The Life of Adam Smith

  - Ross, Ian Simpson, and Adam T Smith. The Life of Adam Smith. Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith’s life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has… More

Multimedia

• “Adam Smith as a Person”

  - Bagehot, Walter. “Adam Smith as a Person.” The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot 3 (1876): 113–19.
  Excerpt: “Of Adam Smith’s Political Economy almost an infinite quantity has been said, but very little has been said as to Adam Smith himself. And yet not only was he one of the most curious of human beings, but his books can hardly be understood… More

• Life of Adam Smith

  - Rae, John. Life of Adam Smith. Cosimo Classics, 2006.
  Excerpt: “ADAM SMITH was born at Kirkcaldy, in the county of Fife, Scotland, on the 5th of June 1723. He was the son of Adam Smith, Writer to the Signet, Judge Advocate for Scotland and Comptroller of the Customs in the Kirkcaldy district, by Margaret,… More

• Authentic Adam Smith: Hs Life and Ideas

  - Buchan, James. Authentic Adam Smith: Hs Life and Ideas. New York, NY: W W Norton & Co, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Celebrated author James Buchan on the widely known—but often misread—Scottish philosopher Adam Smith. Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and small… More

• Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

  - Phillipson, N. T. Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life. New Haven [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “The great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (1723–90) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that… More

• The Life of Adam Smith

  - Ross, Ian Simpson, and Adam T Smith. The Life of Adam Smith. Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith’s life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has… More

Teaching

• “Adam Smith as a Person”

  - Bagehot, Walter. “Adam Smith as a Person.” The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot 3 (1876): 113–19.
  Excerpt: “Of Adam Smith’s Political Economy almost an infinite quantity has been said, but very little has been said as to Adam Smith himself. And yet not only was he one of the most curious of human beings, but his books can hardly be understood… More

• Life of Adam Smith

  - Rae, John. Life of Adam Smith. Cosimo Classics, 2006.
  Excerpt: “ADAM SMITH was born at Kirkcaldy, in the county of Fife, Scotland, on the 5th of June 1723. He was the son of Adam Smith, Writer to the Signet, Judge Advocate for Scotland and Comptroller of the Customs in the Kirkcaldy district, by Margaret,… More

• Authentic Adam Smith: Hs Life and Ideas

  - Buchan, James. Authentic Adam Smith: Hs Life and Ideas. New York, NY: W W Norton & Co, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Celebrated author James Buchan on the widely known—but often misread—Scottish philosopher Adam Smith. Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and small… More

• Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

  - Phillipson, N. T. Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life. New Haven [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “The great eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith (1723–90) is celebrated as the founder of modern economics. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that… More

• The Life of Adam Smith

  - Ross, Ian Simpson, and Adam T Smith. The Life of Adam Smith. Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  From the Publisher: “This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith’s life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has… More