Correspondence of Adam Smith

by Adam Smith, E. C. Mossner

Overview

This volume offers an engaging portrait of Smith through more than four hundred letters; also included are appendixes with Smith’s thoughts on the “Contest with America” and a collection of letters from Jeremy Bentham.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780913966990
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/01/1987
Series:	The Glasgow Edition of the Works of Adam Smith
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	495
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xv
Life and Works of Adam Smith xix
List of Letters xxiii LETTERS I
APPENDICES 337
A. A Letter from Governor Pownall to Adam Smith (1776) 337
B. ‘Smith’s Thoughts on the State of the Contest with America, February 1778’, edited by David Stevens 337
C. Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Letters’ to Adam Smith (1787, 1790) 386
D. Custom-house Documents 405
E. New Letters 413 Index of Persons 435
Index of Books and Subjects 449

Editorial Reviews

"The editors have done their work well. Not only has the new material been unearthed but it has been annotated."—Times Higher Education Supplement

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