[fre] Cet article traite de l'analyse et des opinions d'Adam Smith concernant la politique coloniale britannique pendant la révolution américaine et ses suites immédiates. Smith s'opposait, bien entendu, aux fins et aux méthodes mer- cantilistes de contrôle du commerce colonial. Il...

This thought-provoking book discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance has been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history, successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of...

This paper, presented as an addresss to the Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, argues that writing history may be more interesting if progress is not made the leitmotif. Starting from an examination of early causal accounts of the history of political...

The paper contrasts what modern economists, reflecting the priorities of general equilibrium theory, expect to find in the Wealth of Nations with Smith's own much broader theoretical and policy concerns. A theory of growth in which increasing returns are pervasive conflicts not only with...