Major Works

• Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763)

  - Recommended edition: Smith, Adam. Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763). Edited by Edwin Cannan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896.
  Excerpt: It is to be observed in general that the situation of a country, and the degree of improvement of which it is susceptible, not only in the cultivation of the land, but in other branches of trade, is favourable to the introduction of a republican… More

• “Commerce and Culture”

  - Bloom, Allan. “Commerce and Culture.” Giants and Dwarfs: Essays 1960-1990 (1960): 277–294.

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

  - Recommended edition: Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
  Excerpt: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.… More

• “Adam Smith and the Problem of Justice in Capitalist Society”

  - Devine, Donald J. “Adam Smith and the Problem of Justice in Capitalist Society.” The Journal of Legal Studies 6, no. 2 (1977): 399–409.
  Excerpt: “ON the occasion of the bicentennial of the publication of the Wealth of Nations we finally saw capitalism evaluated on the basis of Adam Smith’s own conception of justice.’ Normally, capitalism has been analyzed with external… More

• “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay.”

  - Hont, Istvan, and Michael Ignatieff. “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay.” In Wealth and Virtue. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  From the Publisher: “Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement… More

• Adam Smith in His Time and Ours by Jerry Muller

  - Muller, Jerry Z. Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society. New York: Free Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.
  From the Publisher: In recent years Adam Smith has been championed by advocates of the market economy. This book analyzes Smith’s economic and political thought, and concludes that far from subscribing to unregulated self-interest, Smith believed the… More

• Adam Smith’s System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations

  - Fitzgibbons, Athol. Adam Smith’s System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations. OUP Catalogue. Oxford University Press, 1997.
  From the Publisher: “This book examines the influence that Adam Smith’s philosophy had on his economics, drawing on the neglected parts of Smith’s writings to show that the political and economic theories built logically on his morals. It… More

• “Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought”

  - Otteson, James R. “Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought.” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 3, no. 1 (2005): 98–102.

• Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

  - Evensky, Jerry. Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Adam Smith is the best known among economists for his book, The Wealth of Nations, often viewed as the keystone of modern economic thought. Others, often heterodox economists and social philosophers, on the contrary, focus on… More

• The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

  - Raphael, D. D. The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy. OUP Catalogue. Oxford University Press, 2009.
  From the Publisher: “D. D. Raphael provides a critical account of the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, presented in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Whilst it does not have the same prominence in its field as his work on economics, The… More

• The Moral Imagination by Gertrude Himmelfarb

  - Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Moral Imagination: From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
  From the Publisher: In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America’s most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive… More

Other Works

• Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763)

  - Recommended edition: Smith, Adam. Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763). Edited by Edwin Cannan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896.
  Excerpt: It is to be observed in general that the situation of a country, and the degree of improvement of which it is susceptible, not only in the cultivation of the land, but in other branches of trade, is favourable to the introduction of a republican… More

• “Commerce and Culture”

  - Bloom, Allan. “Commerce and Culture.” Giants and Dwarfs: Essays 1960-1990 (1960): 277–294.

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

  - Recommended edition: Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
  Excerpt: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.… More

• “Adam Smith and the Problem of Justice in Capitalist Society”

  - Devine, Donald J. “Adam Smith and the Problem of Justice in Capitalist Society.” The Journal of Legal Studies 6, no. 2 (1977): 399–409.
  Excerpt: “ON the occasion of the bicentennial of the publication of the Wealth of Nations we finally saw capitalism evaluated on the basis of Adam Smith’s own conception of justice.’ Normally, capitalism has been analyzed with external… More

• “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay.”

  - Hont, Istvan, and Michael Ignatieff. “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay.” In Wealth and Virtue. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  From the Publisher: “Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement… More

• Adam Smith in His Time and Ours by Jerry Muller

  - Muller, Jerry Z. Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society. New York: Free Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.
  From the Publisher: In recent years Adam Smith has been championed by advocates of the market economy. This book analyzes Smith’s economic and political thought, and concludes that far from subscribing to unregulated self-interest, Smith believed the… More

• Adam Smith’s System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations

  - Fitzgibbons, Athol. Adam Smith’s System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations. OUP Catalogue. Oxford University Press, 1997.
  From the Publisher: “This book examines the influence that Adam Smith’s philosophy had on his economics, drawing on the neglected parts of Smith’s writings to show that the political and economic theories built logically on his morals. It… More

• “Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought”

  - Otteson, James R. “Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought.” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 3, no. 1 (2005): 98–102.

• Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

  - Evensky, Jerry. Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Adam Smith is the best known among economists for his book, The Wealth of Nations, often viewed as the keystone of modern economic thought. Others, often heterodox economists and social philosophers, on the contrary, focus on… More

• The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

  - Raphael, D. D. The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy. OUP Catalogue. Oxford University Press, 2009.
  From the Publisher: “D. D. Raphael provides a critical account of the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, presented in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Whilst it does not have the same prominence in its field as his work on economics, The… More

• The Moral Imagination by Gertrude Himmelfarb

  - Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Moral Imagination: From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
  From the Publisher: In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America’s most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive… More

Commentary

• Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763)

  - Recommended edition: Smith, Adam. Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763). Edited by Edwin Cannan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896.
  Excerpt: It is to be observed in general that the situation of a country, and the degree of improvement of which it is susceptible, not only in the cultivation of the land, but in other branches of trade, is favourable to the introduction of a republican… More

• “Commerce and Culture”

  - Bloom, Allan. “Commerce and Culture.” Giants and Dwarfs: Essays 1960-1990 (1960): 277–294.

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

  - Recommended edition: Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
  Excerpt: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.… More

• “Adam Smith and the Problem of Justice in Capitalist Society”

  - Devine, Donald J. “Adam Smith and the Problem of Justice in Capitalist Society.” The Journal of Legal Studies 6, no. 2 (1977): 399–409.
  Excerpt: “ON the occasion of the bicentennial of the publication of the Wealth of Nations we finally saw capitalism evaluated on the basis of Adam Smith’s own conception of justice.’ Normally, capitalism has been analyzed with external… More

• “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay.”

  - Hont, Istvan, and Michael Ignatieff. “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay.” In Wealth and Virtue. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  From the Publisher: “Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement… More

• Adam Smith in His Time and Ours by Jerry Muller

  - Muller, Jerry Z. Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society. New York: Free Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.
  From the Publisher: In recent years Adam Smith has been championed by advocates of the market economy. This book analyzes Smith’s economic and political thought, and concludes that far from subscribing to unregulated self-interest, Smith believed the… More

• Adam Smith’s System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations

  - Fitzgibbons, Athol. Adam Smith’s System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations. OUP Catalogue. Oxford University Press, 1997.
  From the Publisher: “This book examines the influence that Adam Smith’s philosophy had on his economics, drawing on the neglected parts of Smith’s writings to show that the political and economic theories built logically on his morals. It… More

• “Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought”

  - Otteson, James R. “Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought.” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 3, no. 1 (2005): 98–102.

• Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

  - Evensky, Jerry. Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Adam Smith is the best known among economists for his book, The Wealth of Nations, often viewed as the keystone of modern economic thought. Others, often heterodox economists and social philosophers, on the contrary, focus on… More

• The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

  - Raphael, D. D. The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy. OUP Catalogue. Oxford University Press, 2009.
  From the Publisher: “D. D. Raphael provides a critical account of the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, presented in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Whilst it does not have the same prominence in its field as his work on economics, The… More

• The Moral Imagination by Gertrude Himmelfarb

  - Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Moral Imagination: From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
  From the Publisher: In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America’s most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive… More

Multimedia

• Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763)

  - Recommended edition: Smith, Adam. Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763). Edited by Edwin Cannan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896.
  Excerpt: It is to be observed in general that the situation of a country, and the degree of improvement of which it is susceptible, not only in the cultivation of the land, but in other branches of trade, is favourable to the introduction of a republican… More

• “Commerce and Culture”

  - Bloom, Allan. “Commerce and Culture.” Giants and Dwarfs: Essays 1960-1990 (1960): 277–294.

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

  - Recommended edition: Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
  Excerpt: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.… More

• “Adam Smith and the Problem of Justice in Capitalist Society”

  - Devine, Donald J. “Adam Smith and the Problem of Justice in Capitalist Society.” The Journal of Legal Studies 6, no. 2 (1977): 399–409.
  Excerpt: “ON the occasion of the bicentennial of the publication of the Wealth of Nations we finally saw capitalism evaluated on the basis of Adam Smith’s own conception of justice.’ Normally, capitalism has been analyzed with external… More

• “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay.”

  - Hont, Istvan, and Michael Ignatieff. “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay.” In Wealth and Virtue. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  From the Publisher: “Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement… More

• Adam Smith in His Time and Ours by Jerry Muller

  - Muller, Jerry Z. Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society. New York: Free Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.
  From the Publisher: In recent years Adam Smith has been championed by advocates of the market economy. This book analyzes Smith’s economic and political thought, and concludes that far from subscribing to unregulated self-interest, Smith believed the… More

• Adam Smith’s System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations

  - Fitzgibbons, Athol. Adam Smith’s System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations. OUP Catalogue. Oxford University Press, 1997.
  From the Publisher: “This book examines the influence that Adam Smith’s philosophy had on his economics, drawing on the neglected parts of Smith’s writings to show that the political and economic theories built logically on his morals. It… More

• “Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought”

  - Otteson, James R. “Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought.” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 3, no. 1 (2005): 98–102.

• Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

  - Evensky, Jerry. Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Adam Smith is the best known among economists for his book, The Wealth of Nations, often viewed as the keystone of modern economic thought. Others, often heterodox economists and social philosophers, on the contrary, focus on… More

• The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

  - Raphael, D. D. The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy. OUP Catalogue. Oxford University Press, 2009.
  From the Publisher: “D. D. Raphael provides a critical account of the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, presented in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Whilst it does not have the same prominence in its field as his work on economics, The… More

• The Moral Imagination by Gertrude Himmelfarb

  - Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Moral Imagination: From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
  From the Publisher: In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America’s most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive… More

Teaching

• Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763)

  - Recommended edition: Smith, Adam. Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763). Edited by Edwin Cannan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896.
  Excerpt: It is to be observed in general that the situation of a country, and the degree of improvement of which it is susceptible, not only in the cultivation of the land, but in other branches of trade, is favourable to the introduction of a republican… More

• “Commerce and Culture”

  - Bloom, Allan. “Commerce and Culture.” Giants and Dwarfs: Essays 1960-1990 (1960): 277–294.

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

  - Recommended edition: Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
  Excerpt: How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.… More

• “Adam Smith and the Problem of Justice in Capitalist Society”

  - Devine, Donald J. “Adam Smith and the Problem of Justice in Capitalist Society.” The Journal of Legal Studies 6, no. 2 (1977): 399–409.
  Excerpt: “ON the occasion of the bicentennial of the publication of the Wealth of Nations we finally saw capitalism evaluated on the basis of Adam Smith’s own conception of justice.’ Normally, capitalism has been analyzed with external… More

• “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay.”

  - Hont, Istvan, and Michael Ignatieff. “Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: An Introductory Essay.” In Wealth and Virtue. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  From the Publisher: “Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement… More

• Adam Smith in His Time and Ours by Jerry Muller

  - Muller, Jerry Z. Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society. New York: Free Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.
  From the Publisher: In recent years Adam Smith has been championed by advocates of the market economy. This book analyzes Smith’s economic and political thought, and concludes that far from subscribing to unregulated self-interest, Smith believed the… More

• Adam Smith’s System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations

  - Fitzgibbons, Athol. Adam Smith’s System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations. OUP Catalogue. Oxford University Press, 1997.
  From the Publisher: “This book examines the influence that Adam Smith’s philosophy had on his economics, drawing on the neglected parts of Smith’s writings to show that the political and economic theories built logically on his morals. It… More

• “Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought”

  - Otteson, James R. “Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought.” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 3, no. 1 (2005): 98–102.

• Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

  - Evensky, Jerry. Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  From the Publisher: “Adam Smith is the best known among economists for his book, The Wealth of Nations, often viewed as the keystone of modern economic thought. Others, often heterodox economists and social philosophers, on the contrary, focus on… More

• The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy

  - Raphael, D. D. The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy. OUP Catalogue. Oxford University Press, 2009.
  From the Publisher: “D. D. Raphael provides a critical account of the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, presented in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Whilst it does not have the same prominence in its field as his work on economics, The… More

• The Moral Imagination by Gertrude Himmelfarb

  - Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Moral Imagination: From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
  From the Publisher: In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America’s most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive… More