<p><em>The Adam Smith Review </em>is a multidisciplinary refereed annual review that covers all aspects of research relating to Adam Smith, his writings, and his significance for the modern world. It is the only publication of its kind and it aims to facilitate debate between scholars working across the humanities and social sciences. </p><p>This first volume contains contributions from a multidisciplinary range of specialists, including Stephen Darwall, Samuel Fleischacker, Willie Henderson, Takashi Negishi, Ian Simpson Ross, Emma Rothschild, Richard B. Sher, Ernst Tugendhat, Gloria Vivenza and Patricia H. Werhane, who discuss such themes as:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>the reception of the Wealth of Nations </li> <li>the classics and Adam Smith </li> <li>Adam Smith and Kant </li> <li>Adam Smith and disequilibrium economic theory </li> </ul> Articles 1. New light on the publication and reception of the Wealth of Nations  Richard B. Sher 2. Adam Smith and disequilibrium economic history  Takashi Negishi 3. 'Great works upon the anvil' in 1785: Adam Smith's projected corpus of philosophy  Ian Simpson Ross^l 4. A very cautious,or a very polite, Dr Smith?: hedging in the Wealth of Nations  Willie Henderson^l Translation 5. Introduction to Translation  Christel Fricke 6. Universalistically approved intersubjective attitudes: Adam Smith  Ernst Tugendhat (translated by Bernard Schriebl) Perspectives on recent developments in Adam Smith scholarship 7. Reading Adam Smith in the light of the Classics Gloria Vivenza Symposium on Emma Rothschild's Economic Sentiments 8. Symposium Introduction  Ryan Patrick Hanley, Guest Editor) 9. Equal dignity in Adam Smith  Stephen Darwall 10. ...laissez-faire when it was new...  Patricia Werhane 11. Smith's ambiguities Samuel Fleischcker 12. Dignity or meanness  Emma Rothschild 13. Suffering and Distance: Morality, Media and Politics Luc Boltanski 14. Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in France Kenneth E. Carpenter 15. Adam Smith and the Classics  Gloria Vivenza 16. Weinstein On Adam Smith  Jack Russell