Lauderdale's Notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations / Edition 1

by Chuhei Sugiyama

Overview

For a long time, the work of the 8th Earl of Lauderdale, James Maitland, was badly neglected. It has only been in this century that his contribution to economic thought has been reassessed and revalued. Since then he has come to be recognized as the earliest systematic critic of Smith's economic thought. This revaluation continues now with the publication of Lauderdale's Notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
The work, the existence of which was only discovered five years ago, is published here for the first time. It is reproduced from the hand-written notes and marginalia which appear in Lauderdale's own edition of the Wealth of Nations which in now housed in the Tokyo Keizai University Library. The notes are reproduced here in full along with the relevant passages from The Wealth of Nations to which they refer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415122849
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/28/1995
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Chuhei Sugiyama is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Tokyo Keizai University. He has extensive teaching and research experience both in Japan and the UK. He is highly regarded as both an economist and a historian of economic thought.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Plan of the Work; Part I Book I; Part II Book II; Part III Book III; Part IV Book IV; Part V Book V;

Editorial Reviews

A collection of the marginal, interlinear, and inserted notes by James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale in his personal copy of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). Much of the comment resurfaced in Lauderdale's An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth (1804), one of first systematic, and still among the rare, critical responses to Smith. The notes are keyed to pages in two popular modern editions of Wealth of Nations. Indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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