Adam Smith: International Perspectives
Adam Smith (1723-90) is well known as the author of The Wealth of Nations and as a champion of free enterprise but he also wrote on moral philosophy and lectured on rhetoric and jurisprudence. This collection reveals a new portrait of the well known econo
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Adaßl Sßlith: International Perspectives Edited by
Hiroshi Mizuta Professor of the History of Sodal Thol/ght Meijo Unil'ersity. Nagoya. Japan
and
Chuhei Sugiyama
Professor 0/ Economics Tokyo Keizai Ulliversity. To/..yo. Japan
© Hiroshi Mizuta and Chuhci Sugiyama 1993 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993
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Contents Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Notes on the Contributors
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1 Adam Smith (1723-90): A Biographical Sketch Ian Ross 2 The Practical System of Morality in Adam Smith Hisashi Shinohara 3 The Aesthetics of Adam Smith Peter lones 4 Adam Smith's Lectures on Jurisprudence: Their Inftuence on Legal Education lohn W. Cairns 5 Adam Smith: Scottish Moral Philosopher as Political Economist Donald Winch 6 The Shaping of Political Economy in the Enlightenment Andrew S. Skinner 7 Adam Smith in the Scottish Enlightenment lohn Dwyer 8 Adam Smith in Germany, 1776-1832 Norbert Waszek 9 Adam Smith and American Academic Moral Philosophers and Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution Roger l. Fechner 10 The Introduction of Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy to French Thought Takaho Ando 11 A French Reading of the Wealth of Nations in 1790 Daniel Diatkine 12 The Diffusion of the Economic Thought of Adam Smith in Italy, 1776-1876 Gabriella Gioli
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13 Adam Smith in Russia Andrei Anikin 14 Adam Smith in India J.S. Narayan Rao 15 Adam Smith in China Zhu Shaowen 1
