Adam Smith in the library

6 works in the library quote Adam Smith — 9 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

A. V. Dicey 4 citations · Henry Mayers Hyndman 1 citation · Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation · Hugo Grotius 1 citation · Jeremy Bentham 1 citation · Wordsworth Donisthorpe 1 citation

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1. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 3 authority · 1 neutral 4 citations · 6 passages

   ch. 10 2 passages anchored here · ch. 24 · ch. 51 3 passages anchored here

   The passage explicitly names both the work and its author, relying on it as the authoritative origin of free-trade doctrine and using its publication date to measure the delay before legislative acceptance.

   The principle of free trade may, as far as Englishmen are concerned, be treated as the doctrine of Adam Smith.

2. Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century Henry Mayers Hyndman 1 authority 1 citation

   introduction

   Invoked as a superior authority to orthodox political economists who fail to see class antagonism

   in this respect proving themselves less clear-sighted than their master, Adam Smith, who, at least, detected that employers were in a permanent conspiracy to keep down the rate of wages.

3. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 7

   Named directly as having recognized the antiquity of the tenancy form discussed.

   Adam Smith recognised the great antiquity of the Metayer tenancy, still widely spread over the Continent, of which one variety was in his day found in Scotland under the name of ‘steelbow.

4. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 endorsed 1 citation

   general preface

   The passage explicitly endorses Smith's essay as practically wise.

   Adam Smith’s “Essay on Colonies” presents an introductory view of the principles governing colonial policy.

5. A Protest Against Law-Taxes Jeremy Bentham 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 2 2 passages anchored here

   Wealth of Nations is named directly as the source through which the Davenant figure is reported.

   The average expenditure of an English subject, infants and adults, rich as well as poor, taken together, has been computed by Davenant (as quoted on this occasion somewhere by Adam Smith) at 8l.

6. Law in a Free State Wordsworth Donisthorpe 1 extended 1 citation

   ch. 10

   Adam Smith's doctrine is named as the direct foundation which the author's theory develops and extends.

   The theory of labour capitalisation is based on the doctrine propounded by Adam Smith, but not adhered to by him throughout his writings, that the labourer is a species of capital.