Major Works

• “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense”

  - Sher, Richard B. “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense.” The Journal of Modern History 61, no. 2 (1989): 240–268.
  Excerpt: “It has long been recognized that eighteenth-century Scotland gave birth to political economy as a sophisticated scholarly discipline. Hailing from a relatively impoverished nation that had joined its larger southerneighbor in 1707 to form a… More

• Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

  - Griswold, Charles L. Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  From the Publisher: “Although Adam Smith is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including… More

• Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

  - Hirschman, Albert O. Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. [S.l.]: Princeton University Pres, 2013.
  From the Publisher: “In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material… More

• Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment

  - Rothschild, Emma. Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. Harvard University Press, 2013.
  From the Publisher: “In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their… More

Other Works

• “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense”

  - Sher, Richard B. “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense.” The Journal of Modern History 61, no. 2 (1989): 240–268.
  Excerpt: “It has long been recognized that eighteenth-century Scotland gave birth to political economy as a sophisticated scholarly discipline. Hailing from a relatively impoverished nation that had joined its larger southerneighbor in 1707 to form a… More

• Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

  - Griswold, Charles L. Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  From the Publisher: “Although Adam Smith is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including… More

• Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

  - Hirschman, Albert O. Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. [S.l.]: Princeton University Pres, 2013.
  From the Publisher: “In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material… More

• Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment

  - Rothschild, Emma. Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. Harvard University Press, 2013.
  From the Publisher: “In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their… More

Commentary

• “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense”

  - Sher, Richard B. “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense.” The Journal of Modern History 61, no. 2 (1989): 240–268.
  Excerpt: “It has long been recognized that eighteenth-century Scotland gave birth to political economy as a sophisticated scholarly discipline. Hailing from a relatively impoverished nation that had joined its larger southerneighbor in 1707 to form a… More

• Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

  - Griswold, Charles L. Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  From the Publisher: “Although Adam Smith is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including… More

• Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

  - Hirschman, Albert O. Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. [S.l.]: Princeton University Pres, 2013.
  From the Publisher: “In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material… More

• Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment

  - Rothschild, Emma. Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. Harvard University Press, 2013.
  From the Publisher: “In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their… More

Multimedia

• “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense”

  - Sher, Richard B. “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense.” The Journal of Modern History 61, no. 2 (1989): 240–268.
  Excerpt: “It has long been recognized that eighteenth-century Scotland gave birth to political economy as a sophisticated scholarly discipline. Hailing from a relatively impoverished nation that had joined its larger southerneighbor in 1707 to form a… More

• Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

  - Griswold, Charles L. Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  From the Publisher: “Although Adam Smith is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including… More

• Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

  - Hirschman, Albert O. Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. [S.l.]: Princeton University Pres, 2013.
  From the Publisher: “In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material… More

• Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment

  - Rothschild, Emma. Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. Harvard University Press, 2013.
  From the Publisher: “In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their… More

Teaching

• “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense”

  - Sher, Richard B. “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Problem of National Defense.” The Journal of Modern History 61, no. 2 (1989): 240–268.
  Excerpt: “It has long been recognized that eighteenth-century Scotland gave birth to political economy as a sophisticated scholarly discipline. Hailing from a relatively impoverished nation that had joined its larger southerneighbor in 1707 to form a… More

• Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

  - Griswold, Charles L. Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  From the Publisher: “Although Adam Smith is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including… More

• Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

  - Hirschman, Albert O. Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. [S.l.]: Princeton University Pres, 2013.
  From the Publisher: “In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material… More

• Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment

  - Rothschild, Emma. Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. Harvard University Press, 2013.
  From the Publisher: “In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their… More