On Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations"

James R. Otteson in The Independent Review reviews On Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations": A Philosophical Companion by Samuel Fleischacker.

As Fleischacker states at the outset, he does not "defend any overarching thesis about Smith" (p. xv); rather, he raises by turns several philosophical issues of central concern to political philosophy or political economy--such as human nature, justice, and private property--and astutely shows, in more or less self-contained chapters, how Smith deals with them in WN.