Conference Reading Lists

A collection of reading lists on Adam Smith.

ASW Reading Group

What Adam Smith Can Teach Us About Civil Discourse

Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments"

Adam Smith on Ethics and Economics

excerpts from Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations

The Scottish Enlightenment and Educating for Liberty

Moral Sentiments in Adam Smith and Jane Austen

Theory of Moral Sentiments paired with Pride and Prejudice

Moral Sentiments: Sympathy, Duty, and Virtue in Adam Smith and Jane Austen

Theory of Moral Sentiments paired with Persuasion

Law in a Polite and Commercial Society: Adam Smith's "Lectures on Jurisprudence" and William Blackstone's Commentaries

Liberty and Market Society in Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Readings in English and Spanish

Adam Smith and the Political Economy of the Early American Republic

Liberty and the State in Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations"

Liberty and the Rhetoric of Adam Smith

Smith's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres paired with Shaftesbury, Swift, and Johnson

Liberty and Equality in Adam Smith

Adam Smith, Liberty, and Responsibility: East and West

Smith paired with Daoist and Confucian philosophy

The Confucian and Scottish Traditions on Moral Emotions and Responsibility