The breadth and complexity of Adam Smith's thought is reflected in this present volume which surveys the contemporary debate, involving both economists and the wider scholarly community, through some 40 articles published over the last eight years.

Until comparatively recently, Adam Smith was known mainly as the author of "Th Wealth of Nations". Modern scholarship and the greater availablity of his other work has thrown new light on Adam Smith suggesting that he was no mere economist but a system builder on a grand scale, and a thinker thoroughly steeped in 18th-century traditions. The breadth and complexity of Adam Smith's thought is reflected in this present volume which surveys the contemporary debate, involving both economists and the wider scholarly community, through some 40 articles published over the last eight years.

Introduction, Mark Blaug
Edmund Burke as an economist, D. Barrington
the classical theory of economic growth, A. Lowe
history and political economy - Smith, Marx and Marshall, P.D. Groenewegen
Adam Smith's analysis of joint-stock companies, G.M. Anderson
science and the legislator - Adam Smith and after, D. Winch
was Adam Smith right after all?, another test of the theory of compensating wage differentials, G.J. Duncan
Thomas Reid on Adam Smith's theory of morals, J.C. Steward-Robertson and D.F. Norton
the hauteur of Adam Smith - an unpublished letter from James Anderson of Monkshill, A.C. Dow
Adam Smith in the customhouse, G.M. Anderson, W.F. Shughard 11 and R.D. Tollison
Adam Smith and the prisoner's dilemma, G. Tullock
natural price and the impartial spectator - a new perspective on Adam Smith as a social economist, J.T. Young
Smith, Steuart and mercantilism, S. Rashid
Adam Smith and the natural progress of opulence, P. Bowles
on Adam Smith's lectures on jurisprudence, E. Pesciarelli
Smith, Bentham and the development of contrasting ideas on entrepreneurship, E. Pesciarelli.