Book Reviews

Interpreting Smith at 300

December 13, 2023

Skjönsberg reviews Paul Sagar's edited volume of critical essays on Adam Smith. Sagar's edition shows Adam Smith continuing to be a source of insight and inspiration to political theorists, philosophers, historians, economists, and other scholars three hundred years after his birth.

Muller on Soll's Free Market: The History of an Idea

January 11, 2023

Soll's Smith is scrutinized and Muller demonstrates a minor replication crisis in the Humanities.

Skjönsberg on Stafford's The Case of Ireland

November 9, 2022

While other countries improved in trade and wealth during the Enlightenment, Ireland remained relatively poorer longer. Adam Smith, James Stafford, and Max Skjönsberg weigh in on the case of Ireland.

Skjönsberg on Sagar's Adam Smith Reconsidered

June 29, 2022

Conjectural Historian? Moral Philosopher? Political Economist?

What is and should be Adam Smith's place in the history of ideas?