A System of Social Science Papers Relating to Adam Smith

by Skinner, Andrew Stewart

• ISBN13: 9780198233343
• ISBN10: 0198233345
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-05-23
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

The second edition of this guide to Adam Smith's system of thought has been fully updated to reflect recent developments in Smith scholarship and Professor Skinner's experience of teaching Smith to a student audience. The material from the first edition has been extensively rewritten, and four new chapters have been added, covering Smith's essays on the exercise of human understanding, and his relationship to Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Sir James Steuart. Skinner places Smith's system of social, and moral, science firmly within the context of contemporary British and Continental intellectual history, dealing in particular detail with the founders of the Scottish Enlightenment and with the French Physiocrats.

Author Biography

Andrew S. Skinner is Vice-Principal and Adam Smith Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Glasgow.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Abbreviations and References	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
	p. 5
Language, Rhetoric, and the Communication of Ideas	p. 7
Early Writings: Science and the Role of the Imagination	p. 25
	p. 49
Moral Philosophy and Civil Society: Ethics and Self-Love	p. 51
Conclusions	p. 94
References	p. 104
	p. 107
Some Principles of Political Economy: Pufendorf, Hutcheson, and Adam Smith	p. 109
The Development of a System: Adam Smith and the Physiocrats	p. 123
Conclusion	p. 136
References	p. 141
	p. 143
A Conceptual Sytem	p. 145
References	p. 179
	p. 181
The Role of the State	p. 183
Mercantilist Policy: the American Colonies	p. 209
	p. 231
David Hume: Economic Writings	p. 233
Sir James Steuart: Principles of Political Economy	p. 255
Conclusion	p. 282
References	p. 285
Index of Authorities	p. 289
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