アダム・スミス研究の動向 : 過去10年における内外の『国富論』研究を中心に
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This paper aims to review the scholarship on Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (WN) in the past decade. The publication of The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (1976-1987) led to the so-called "Adam Smith Renaissance" that has encouraged many scholars from different disciplines to conduct interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary studies on Smith. In addition to the studies on Scottish Enlightenment, the establishment of the International Adam Smith Society (IASS) in 1995 and the publication of the Adam Smith Review (ASR) in association with the IASS since 2004 further promoted interdisciplinary studies on Smith. Thus, the interdisciplinary wave of interest in Smith's moral philosophy is an outstanding feature of the latest scholarship on Smith. However, as the interdisciplinary studies on Smith have advanced increasingly, there has been a definite waning of interest in his economics concerning WN. This phenomenon is indicated straightforwardly in Den Uyl (2008, 4) who mentions that "We can no longer say that WN is somehow the 'essential' Smith" and in Forman-Barzilai (2008, 219) who affirms that "Smith's political economy itself was not the centre on his thought, but rather its place in a lager project of moral philosophy." Part I of this paper is a prologue to the manner in which the WN was studied in the past decade. Part II discusses two excellent foreign works, Fleischacker's On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (2004) and Aspromourgos' The Science of Wealth (2009). These two books sharply contrast with each other, because the former has a philosophical approach to WN, while the latter adopts an orthodox style used by economic historians. Part III considers the scholarship on the WN in Japan. Inamura's Reconsideration of the system of The Wealth of Nations (2003), Tajima's Adam Smith's Institutional Economics (2003), and Takemoto's Across The Wealth of Nations (2005) will be mainly reviewed in this paper. In part III, I aim to ascertain the orthodoxy of our scholarship on WN and its transfiguration in comparison with the scholarship abroad. Part IV, the epilogue, briefly surveys the origin of WN (Smith's political economy) in order to understand the nature of modern economics.
- 2011-07-25
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