The Americas in Adam Smith and His Contemporaries
ABSTRACT
This conference explored how much the available knowledge about the Americas referred to in his works may illuminate us about the premises of many of Smith's cosmopolitan ideas about economy and society, as well as the possible tensions between the benefits of a larger market and the costs of achieving it with empires. The discussion was held in Spanish.
READING LIST
From Liberty Fund
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by
By Adam Smith
Edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith’s first and in his own mind most important work, outlines his view of proper conduct and the institutions and sentiments that make men virtuous. Here he develops his doctrine of the impartial spectator, whose hypothetical disinterested judgment we must use to distinguish right from…
Correspondence of Adam Smith
by
By Adam Smith
Edited by E. C. Mossner and I. S. Ross
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.
Additional Readings
de Vitoria, Francisco. Political Writings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Robertson, William. The History of America, Volume I. London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996.
Robertson, William. The History of America, Volume II. London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996.
Robertson, William. The History of America, Volume III. London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996.
Rodríguez Braun, Carlos. La cuestión colonial y la economía clásica. Madrid: Alianza Universidad, 1989.
Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume I. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982.
Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume II. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1982.