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

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

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

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

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