Adam Smith Across Nations Translations and

The Wealth of Nations provides the perfect basis for studying the international transmission of economic ideas at it is generally considered to be the foundation of modern political economy. The articles in this collection all concern translations of and receptions to Smith's greatest work in ten non-English-speaking countries.

Reader's Guide

xii

Translations of The Wealth of Nations

xv

Receptions of The Wealth of Nations

xxi

Part 1. China

The Wealth of Nations

3

(13)

Benjamin Schwartz

Adam Smith and Yen Fu: Western Economics in Chinese Perspective

16

(11)

Cheng-Chung Lai

Foreword to the First Chinese Edition of The Wealth of Nations

27

(7)

Yen Fu

Cheng-chung Lai

Preface to the First Chinese Edition of The Wealth of Nations

34

(5)

Wu Rulun

Part 2. Denmark

Four Letters Concerning the First Danish Translation of The Wealth of Nations

39

(8)

Adam Smith

On the Danish Translation of Adam Smith and Contemporary Opinion Concerning It

47

(5)

Hans Degen

Henrietta M. Larson (1938)

On Adam Smith's Connections to Norway and Denmark

52

(13)

Niels Banke

Hans Johansen

Part 3. France

The First French Review of The Wealth of Nations

65

(2)

Five Letters Concerning the French Translation of The Wealth of Nations

67

(4)

Adam Smith

French Translations of The Wealth of Nations

71

(6)

David Murray

The Influence of Smith's Thought and Its Diffusion: J. B. Say

77

(20)

Charles Gide

Charles Rist

Part 4. Germany

The Introduction of Adam Smith's Doctrines

97

(25)

C. W. Hasek

The System of Values of Exchange (Falsely Termed by the School, the ``Industrial'' System)---Adam Smith

122

(5)

Friedrich List

The ``Smith Reception'' and the Function of Translation

127

(23)

Keith Tribe

Part 5. Italy

The Knowledge of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in Italy in the Eighteenth Century

150

(13)

Gabriella Gioli

The Centenary of the Publication of Adam Smith's Work

163

(18)

Luigi Luzzatti

Silvia Klemm

Part 6. Japan

A Short History of Japanese Translations of The Wealth of Nations

181

(13)

Kazuo Okochi

Tatsuya Sakamoto

Adam Smith in Japan

194

(13)

Shiro Sugihara

Cheng-chung Lai

Aiko Ikeo

Adam Smith in Japan: Reconsidered from a Non-Marxian Perspective

207

(14)

Aiko Ikeo

Masazumi Wakatabe

Part 7. Portugal

Economic Thought in Late Eighteenth-Century Portugal: Physiocratic and Smithian Influences

221

(18)

Jose Luis Cardoso

Part 8. Russia

Adam Smith and His Russian Admirers of the Eighteenth Century

239

(9)

Michael P. Alekseev

Adam Smith's First Russian Disciple

248

(14)

Norman W. Taylor

S. E. Desnitsky, Adam Smith, and the Nakaz of Catherine II

262

(20)

A. H. Brown

Dilemmas of Development: Baron Heinrich Friedrich Storch (1766-1835) on the Growth of Imperial Russia

282

(15)

Roderick E. McGrew

Cheng-chung Lai

Reception of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in Early Russia

297

(16)

Glen Alexandrin

Part 9. Spain

The Wealth of Nations in Spain and Hispanic America, 1780-1830

313

(29)

R. S. Smith

The First Spanish Edition of The Wealth of Nations

342

(5)

R. S. Smith

The Wealth of Nations and Spanish Economists

347

(31)

Luis Perdices de Blas

Part 10. Sweden

University Professors and Amateur Writers: The Wealth of Nations in Sweden up to 1990

378

(26)

Torbjorn Vallinder

Appendix. Translations of The Wealth of Nations in Eighteen Languages

404

(29)

Index

433

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