The year 2023 marks the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith. No author is more significant in the development of economics. And no author has received as much scholarly attention in the pages of History of Political Economy. To commemorate Smith's birthday, we have produced a bibliography of the more than one hundred articles on Smith that have been published in HOPE. Early and late, Smith has been well represented in the journal and no doubt will continue to be as the next generation of Smith scholars, like those before them, continue to find rich and enduring questions to explore in his work.
1969
R. D. Freeman, “Adam Smith, Education, and Laissez-Faire,” v. 1, no. 1, pp. 173–86
1971
Kenneth E. Boulding, “After Samuelson, Who Needs Adam Smith?,” v. 3, no. 2, pp. 225–37
Samuel Hollander, “Some Implications of Adam Smith's Analysis of Investment Priorities,” v. 3, no. 2, pp. 238–64
George J. Stigler, “Smith's Travels on the Ship of State,” v. 3, no. 2, pp. 265–77
1972
Ralph Anspach, “The Implications of the Theory of Moral Sentiments for Adam Smith's Economic Thought,” v. 4, no. 1, pp. 176–206
1973
Charles E. Staley, “A Note on Adam Smith's Version of the Vent for Surplus Model,” v. 5, no. 2, pp. 438–48
1974
Vernard Foley, “The Division of Labor in Plato and Smith,” v. 6, no. 2, pp. 220–42
1975
A. W. Coats, “Adam Smith's Conception of Self-Interest in Economic and Political Affairs,” v. 7, no. 1, pp. 132–36
1976
Ronald L. Meek, “New Light on Adam Smith's Glasgow Lectures on Jurisprudence,” v. 8, no. 4, pp. 439–77
Henry W. Spiegel, “Adam Smith's Heavenly City,” v. 8, no. 4, pp. 478–93
Ralph Anspach, “Smith's Growth Paradigm,” v. 8, no. 4, pp. 494–514
E. G. West, “Adam Smith's Economics of Politics,” v. 8, no. 4, pp. 515–39
Laurence S. Moss, “The Economics of Adam Smith: Professor Hollander's Reappraisal,” v. 8, no. 4, pp. 564–74
1979
William D. Grampp, “Adam Smith and the American Revolutionists,” v. 11, no. 2, pp. 179–91
Kirk Willis, “The Role in Parliament of the Economic Ideas of Adam Smith, 1776–1800,” v. 11, no. 4, pp. 505–44
1981
J. M. A. Gee, “The Origin of Rent in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: An Anti-neoclassical View,” v. 13, no. 1, pp. 1–18
1982
Philip E. Mirowski, “Adam Smith, Empiricism, and the Rate of Profit in Eighteenth-Century England,” v. 14, no. 2, pp. 178–98
Robert L. Heilbroner, “The Socialization of the Individual in Adam Smith,” v. 14, no. 3, pp. 427–39
1983
Michael Perelman, “Classical Political Economy and Primitive Accumulation: The Case of Smith and Steuart,” v. 15, no. 3, pp. 451–94
1986
James P. Henderson, “Agency or Alienation? Smith, Mill, and Marx on the Joint-Stock Company,” v. 18, no. 1, pp. 111–31
Jeffrey T. Young, “The Impartial Spectator and Natural Jurisprudence: An Interpretation of Adam Smith's Theory of the Natural Price,” v. 18, no. 3, pp. 365–82
1987
Gavin C. Reid, “Disequilibrium and Increasing Returns in Adam Smith's Analysis of Growth and Accumulation,” v. 19, no. 1, pp. 87–106
Frank Petrella, “Daniel Raymond, Adam Smith, and Classical Growth Theory: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of America,” v. 19, no. 2, pp. 239–59
David Levy, “Adam Smith's Case for Usury Laws,” v. 19, no. 3, pp. 387–400
Jerry Evensky, “The Two Voices of Adam Smith: Moral Philosopher and Social Critic,” v. 19, no. 3, pp. 447–68
1989
Morris Perlman, “Adam Smith and the Paternity of the Real Bills Doctrine,” v. 21, no. 1, pp. 77–90
Jerry Evensky, “The Evolution of Adam Smith's Views on Political Economy,” v. 21, no. 1, pp. 123–45
Michael Perelman, “Adam Smith and Dependent Social Relations,” v. 21, no. 3, pp. 503–20
Gary M. Anderson, “The Butcher, the Baker, and the Policy-Maker: Adam Smith on Public Choice,” v. 21, no. 4, pp. 641–59
George J. Stigler, “The Butcher, the Baker, and the Policy-Maker: Adam Smith on Public Choice; Reply,” v. 21, no. 4, pp. 659–60
Giuseppe Tullio, “Smith and Ricardo on the Long-Run Effects of the Growth of Government Expenditure, Taxation, and Debt: Is Their Theory Relevant Today?,” v. 21, no. 4, pp. 723–36
1990
Nathan Rosenberg, “Adam Smith and the Stock of Moral Capital,” v. 22, no. 1, pp. 1–17
Syed Ahmad, “Adam Smith's Four Invisible Hands,” v. 22, no. 1, pp. 137–44
Rhead S. Bowman, “Smith, Mill, and Marshall on Human Capital Formation,” v. 22, no. 2, pp. 239–59
J. Ronnie Davis, “Adam Smith on the Providential Reconciliation of Individual and Social Interests: Is Man Led by an Invisible Hand or Misled by a Sleight of Hand?,” v. 22, no. 2, pp. 341–52
José Luís Cardoso, “Economic Thought in Late Eighteenth-Century Portugal: Physiocratic and Smithian Influences,” v. 22, no. 3, pp. 429–41
Jeffrey T. Young, “David Hume and Adam Smith on Value Premises in Economics,” v. 22, no. 4, pp. 643–57
1991
Anthony Brewer, “Economic Growth and Technical Change: John Rae's Critique of Adam Smith,” v. 23, no. 1, pp. 1–11
Robert E. Prasch, “The Ethics of Growth in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations,” v. 23, no. 2, pp. 337–51
Craufurd D. Goodwin, “National Security in Classical Political Economy,” v. 23, supplement, pp. 23–35
1992
Jerry Evensky, “Ethics and the Classical Liberal Tradition in Economics,” v. 24, no. 1, pp. 61–77
Salim Rashid, “Adam Smith and the Market Mechanism,” v. 24, no. 1, pp. 129–52
James A. Gherity, “Adam Smith and the Glasgow Merchants,” v. 24, no. 2, pp. 357–68
Salim Rashid, “Charles James Fox and The Wealth of Nations,” v. 24, no. 2, pp. 493–97
Charles G. Leathers and J. Patrick Raines, “Adam Smith on Competitive Religious Markets,” v. 24, no. 2, pp. 499–513
1993
James A. Gherity, “An Early Publication by Adam Smith,” v. 25, no. 2, pp. 241–82
Jerry Evensky, “Adam Smith on the Human Foundation of a Successful Liberal Society,” v. 25, no. 3, pp. 395–412
Chris Nyland, “Adam Smith, Stage Theory, and the Status of Women,” v. 25, no. 4, pp. 617–40
1994
Edwin G. West, “Joint Supply Theory before Mill,” v. 26, no. 2, pp. 267–78
James A. Gherity, “The Evolution of Adam Smith's Theory of Banking,” v. 26, no. 3, pp. 423–41
Bruce Elmslie, “The Endogenous Nature of Technological Progress and Transfer in Adam Smith's Thought,” v. 26, no. 4, pp. 649–63
1995
Spencer J. Pack, “Theological (and Hence Economic) Implications of Adam Smith's ‘Principles Which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries,’” v. 27, no. 2, pp. 289–307
Hyun-Ho Song, “Adam Smith as an Early Pioneer of Institutional Individualism,” v. 27, no. 3, pp. 425–48
Donald J. Oswald, “Metaphysical Beliefs and the Foundations of Smithian Political Economy,” v. 27, no. 3, pp. 449–76
Jeffrey T. Young, “Natural Jurisprudence and the Theory of Value in Adam Smith,” v. 27, no. 4, pp. 755–73
1996
Jeffrey T. Young, “Distributive Justice as a Normative Criterion in Adam Smith's Political Economy,” v. 28, no. 1, pp. 1–25
Edwin G. West, “Adam Smith on the Cultural Effects of Specialization: Splenetics versus Economics,” v. 28, no. 1, pp. 83–105
Syed Ahmad, “Smith's Division of Labor and Rae's Invention: A Study of the Second Dichotomy, with an Evaluation of the First,” v. 28, no. 3, pp. 441–58
Bruce T. Elmslie, “The Role of Joint Products in Adam Smith's Explanation of the ‘Vent-for-Surplus’ Doctrine,” v. 28, no. 3, pp. 513–23
1997
Jürg Niehans, “Adam Smith and the Welfare Cost of Optimism,” v. 29, no. 2, pp. 185–200
1998
Jerry Evensky, “Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: The Role of Religion and Its Relationship to Philosophy and Ethics in the Evolution of Society,” v. 30, no. 1, pp. 17–42
Amos Witztum, “A Study into Smith's Conception of the Human Character: Das Adam Smith Problem Revisited,” v. 30, no. 3, pp. 489–513
Hamid Hosseini, “Seeking the Roots of Adam Smith's Division of Labor in Medieval Persia,” v. 30, no. 4, pp. 653–81
1999
Anthony Brewer, “Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the Concept of Economic Growth,” v. 31, no. 2, pp. 237–54
Andreas Ortmann, “The Nature and Causes of Corporate Negligence, Sham Lectures, and Ecclesiastical Indolence: Adam Smith on Joint-Stock Companies, Teachers, and Preachers,” v. 31, no. 2, pp. 297–315
Charles G. Leathers and J. Patrick Raines, “Adam Smith and Thomas Chalmers on Financing Religious Instruction,” v. 31, no. 2, pp. 337–59
Enzo Pesciarelli, “Aspects of the Influence of Francis Hutcheson on Adam Smith,” v. 31, no. 3, pp. 525–45
2000
Glenn Hueckel, “On the ‘Insurmountable Difficulties, Obscurity, and Embarrassment’ of Smith's Fifth Chapter,” v. 32, no. 2, pp. 317–45
Mike G. Marshall, “Luxury, Economic Development, and Work Motivation: David Hume, Adam Smith, and J. R. McCulloch,” v. 32, no. 3, pp. 631–48
2002
Jonathan B. Wight, “The Rise of Adam Smith: Articles and Citations, 1970–1997,” v. 34, no. 1, pp. 55–82
Michael V. White, “Doctoring Adam Smith: The Fable of the Diamonds and Water Paradox,” v. 34, no. 4, pp. 659–83
2003
Maria Pia Paganelli, “In Medio Stat Virtus: An Alternative View of Usury in Adam Smith's Thinking,” v. 35, no. 1, pp. 21–48
Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, “Time-Inconsistent Preferences in Adam Smith and David Hume,” v. 35, no. 2, pp. 241–68
Gordon F. Davis, “Philosophical Psychology and Economic Psychology in David Hume and Adam Smith,” v. 35, no. 2, pp. 269–304
Margaret Schabas, “Adam Smith's Debts to Nature,” v. 35, supplement, pp. 262–81
2005
Jerry Evensky, “‘Chicago Smith’ versus ‘Kirkaldy Smith,’” v. 37, no. 2, pp. 197–203
Warren J. Samuels and Steven G. Medema, “Freeing Smith from the ‘Free Market’: On the Misperception of Adam Smith on the Economic Role of Government,” v. 37, no. 2, pp. 219–26
Neil De Marchi and Jonathan A. Greene, “Adam Smith and Private Provision of the Arts,” v. 37, no. 3, pp. 431–54
Robert B. Ekelund, Robert F. Hébert, and Robert D. Tollison, “Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure,” v. 37, no. 4, pp. 647–60
Jeffrey T. Young, “Unintended Order and Intervention: Adam Smith's Theory of the Role of the State,” v. 37, supplement, pp. 91–119
2006
Edd S. Noell, “Smith and a Living Wage: Competition, Economic Compulsion, and the Scholastic Legacy,” v. 38, no. 1, pp. 151–74
Pierre Force, “First Principles in Translation: The Axiom of Self-Interest from Adam Smith to Jean-Baptiste Say,” v. 38, no. 2, pp. 319–38
Amos Witztum and Jeffrey T. Young, “The Neglected Agent: Justice, Power, and Distribution in Adam Smith,” v. 38, no. 3, pp. 437–71
2008
Deirdre McCloskey, “Adam Smith, the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists,” v. 40, no. 1, pp. 43–71
Charles G. Leathers and J. Patrick Raines, “Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure: The Search for Consistency,” v. 40, no. 2, pp. 345–63
Maria Pia Paganelli, “The Adam Smith Problem in Reverse: Self-Interest in The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” v. 40, no. 2, pp. 365–82
Stewart Davenport, “Das Adam Smith Problem and Faculty Psychology in the Antebellum North,” v. 40, supplement, pp. 243–64
2009
Terry Peach, “Adam Smith and the Labor Theory of (Real) Value: A Reconsideration,” v. 41, no. 2, pp. 383–406
Anthony Brewer, “On the Other (Invisible) Hand . . . ,” v. 41, no. 3, pp. 519–43
2010
Amos Witztum, “Interdependence, the Invisible Hand, and Equilibrium in Adam Smith,” v. 42, no. 1, pp. 155–92
Terry Peach, “Measuring ‘the Happiness of Nations’: The Conundrum of Adam Smith's ‘Real Measure of Exchangeable Value,’” v. 42, no. 3, pp. 403–24
Maria Pia Paganelli, “The Moralizing Role of Distance in Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments as Possible Praise of Commerce,” v. 42, no. 3, pp. 425–41
2011
Amartya Sen, “Uses and Abuses of Adam Smith,” v. 43, no. 2, pp. 257–71
2012
Christopher J. Berry, “Adam Smith's ‘Science of Human Nature,’” v. 44, no. 3, pp. 471–92
Ferdinando Meacci, “On Adam Smith's Ambiguities on Value and Wealth,” v. 44, no. 4, pp. 663–89
2013
Simon J. Cook, “From Ancients and Moderns to Geography and Anthropology: The Meaning of History in the Thought of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall,” v. 45, no. 2, pp. 311–43
Craig Smith, “Adam Smith's ‘Collateral’ Inquiry: Fashion and Morality in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations,” v. 45, no. 3, pp. 505–22
2014
Terry Peach, “Adam Smith's ‘Optimistic Deism,’ the Invisible Hand of Providence, and the Unhappiness of Nations,” v. 46, no. 1, pp. 55–83
2015
Maria Pia Paganelli, “Recent Engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment,” v. 47, no. 3, pp. 363–94
Reinhard Schumacher, “Adam Smith's ‘Two Distinct Benefits’ from Trade: The Dead End of ‘Vent-for-Surplus’ Interpretations,” v. 47, no. 4, pp. 577–603
Bradley W. Bateman, “Analyzing Market Failure: Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes,” v. 47, supplement, pp. 127–44
2017
José M. Menudo and Nicolas Rieucau, “A Previously Unpublished Correspondence between Adam Smith and Joseph Nicolas de Windischgratz,” v. 49, no. 1, pp. 93–112
Maria Pia Paganelli, “We Are Not the Center of the Universe: The Role of Astronomy in the Moral Defense of Commerce in Adam Smith,” v. 49, no. 3, pp. 451–68
Laurie Bréban and Jean Dellemotte, “From One Sympathy to Another: Sophie de Grouchy's Translation of and Commentary on Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments,” v. 49, no. 4, pp. 667–707
2018
Geoffrey C. Kellow, “Benjamin Franklin and Adam Smith: Two Strangers and the Spirit of Capitalism,” v. 50, no. 2, pp. 321–44
2019
Roy H. Grieve, “On Terry Peach's Unconvincing ‘Reconsideration’ of Adam Smith's Theory of Value,” v. 51, no. 4, pp. 753–77
2020
Terry Peach, “Adam Smith's Labor Theory of (Real) Value: The Case of a Misfiring Critique,” v. 52, no. 1, pp. 171–90
2022
Maria Pia Paganelli, “Vanity and Luck in Adam Smith’s Economic Growth,” v. 54, no. 5, pp. 859–77
Jocelyn Hickey, “Reading Practices in Political Economy: The Case of Adam Smith,” v. 54, no. 5, pp. 911–19
Craig Smith, “Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, and the Reconceptualization of Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Scotland,” v. 54, no. 5, pp. 921–34
Jocelyn Hickey, “Reading the Invisible Hand: An Epistemological Consideration,” v. 54, no. 5, pp. 935–50
Keith Tribe, “Framing The Wealth of Nations,” v. 54, no. 5, pp. 951–73
Matthew Watson, “The Place of Glasgow in The Wealth of Nations: Caught between Biography and Text, Philosophical and Commercial History,” v. 54, no. 5, pp. 975–90
