Acknowledgements --Abbreviations to Adam Smith's Works --Introduction --Commercial Society, History, and the Four Stages Theory --Domination, Liberty, and the Rule of Law --Smith and Rousseau, after Hume and Mandeville --Whose Corruption, Which Polity? --The Conspiracy of the Merchants...

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