Volume 25, Number 1 · February 9, 1978
Benevolent Adam Smith
By Garry Wills
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, I. The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by Adam Smith, edited by D.D. Raphael, by A.L. Macfie.
Oxford University Press, 422 pp., $33.00
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, II. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith, edited by R.H. Campbell, edited by A.S. Skinner, textual editor W.B. Todd
Oxford University Press, 2 vols., 1162 pp., $55.00
Essays on Adam Smith
edited by A.S. Skinner, edited by Thomas Wilson
Oxford University Press, 672 pp., $37.50
The Market and the State: Essays in Honour of Adam Smith
edited by Thomas Wilson, edited by Andrew S. Skinner
Oxford University Press, 372 pp., $17.75
A number of great works appeared in 1776—Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, Paine's Common Sense, Smith's Wealth of Nations, the first volume of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and the first volume of Bertotti-Scamozzi's Buildings and Designs of Andrea Palladio. The bicentennial of all five publications was celebrated in 1976; but Smith received the most illuminating tribute—the launching of Oxford University Press's Glasgow Edition of Smith's works, a beautifully edited series that will in time include a new biography and all the important Smith fragments and correspondence. These give us the materials to break Smith out of the prison of his popular reputation as the rationalizer of greed.
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