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Working Papers

2024

1. Colonization, Commerce and Global History: Adam Smith and Raynal’s Histoire des Deux Indes
   Post-Print, HAL
2. From Economic Inequalities to Social Justice: The Influence of John Rawls on Thomas Piketty
   (Des inégalités économiques à la justice sociale: l’influence de John Rawls sur Thomas Piketty)
   Post-Print, HAL
3. Rawls and political economy: inequality, taxation and property fifty years after The Theory of justice
   (Rawls et l’économie politique: inégalités, fiscalité et propriété cinquante ans après la Théorie de la justice)
   Post-Print, HAL

2023

4. Esquisse d’un libéralisme soutenable, Claude Gamel
   Post-Print, HAL
5. Ideologies and Utopia: A Ricoeurian Reading of Thomas Piketty
   Post-Print, HAL
6. Liberty, political economy and good government in Adam Smith
   Post-Print, HAL
   See also Journal Article Liberty, political economy and good government in Adam Smith, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals (2023) (2023)
7. Moral Sentiments and the Sense of Justice in Smith and Rawls
   (Sentiments moraux et sens de la justice chez Smith et Rawls)
   Post-Print, HAL
8. Rawls's maximin and optimal taxation theory
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Rawls’s maximin and optimal taxation theory, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2022

9. The wealth of humans: core, periphery and frontiers of humanomics
   Post-Print, HAL
   See also Journal Article The wealth of humans: core, periphery and frontiers of humanomics, Journal of Economic Methodology, Taylor & Francis Journals (2023) (2023)

2021

10. From Capital to Property: History and Justice in the Work of Thomas Piketty
    GREDEG Working Papers, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2021)
11. The triumph of injustice. Wealth, tax evasion and democracy
    (Inégalités économiques, justice fiscale et démocratie aux USA)
    Post-Print, HAL

2020

12. BOOK REVIEW: “SELF-LOVE, EGOISM AND THE SELFISH HYPOTHESIS. KEY DEBATES FROM EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH MORAL PHILOSOPHY” BY CHRISTIAN MAURER
    OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science
13. Thomas Piketty, le capitalisme et la société juste
    GREDEG Working Papers, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

2018

14. From Vanity to the Love of Systems, from Luxury to the Accumulation of Capital, from the Gaze of Others to the Endless Process
    Post-Print, HAL
15. Nature et économie chez J.-J. Rousseau et Adam Smith
    Post-Print, HAL

2017

16. Adam Smith on Empire, the Invisible Hand and the Progress of Society
    Post-Print, HAL
17. Book Review: Istvan Hont, Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith, Edited by Béla Kapossy and Michael Sonenscher (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2015), pp. 160, ISBN 978-0-674-96770-0
    Post-Print, HAL
18. Jealousy of trade in Hume and Smith
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)

2015

19. A missing touch of Adam Smith in Amartya Sen's Public Reasoning: the Man Within for the Man Without
    Working Papers, HAL View citations (2)
20. Adam Smith on the subordination of wage-earners in the commercial society
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Adam Smith on the subordination of wage-earners in the commercial society, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals (2015) View citations (3) (2015)
21. Book review:The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith, by Christopher J. Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli, Craig Smith, Oxford University Press, 2013, 656 pp
    Post-Print, HAL
22. Schumpeter’s Assessment of Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations: Why He Got It Wrong
    Discussion Papers, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article SCHUMPETER’S ASSESSMENT OF ADAM SMITH AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS: WHY HE GOT IT WRONG, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cambridge University Press (2019) (2019)
23. The Rhetorical Structure of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (and the importance of acknowledging it)
    Discussion Papers, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

2012

24. A la recherche du spectateur impartial perdu
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
25. Adam Smith, Philosopher and Man of the World
    Post-Print, HAL
26. Growth and progress in Adam Smith's thought
    Post-Print, HAL
    See also Journal Article GROWTH AND PROGRESS IN ADAM SMITH’S THOUGHT, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cambridge University Press (2012) (2012)

2011

27. Corruption des travailleurs et éducation dans les sociétés commerciales selon Adam Smith
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)

2010

28. Adam Smith's Economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The Language of Commerce
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Adam Smith’s economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The language of commerce, History of Economic Ideas, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma (2010) View citations (2) (2010)
    Chapter Adam Smith’s Economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: The Language of Commerce, Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, Palgrave Macmillan (2022) (2022)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Liberty, political economy and good government in Adam Smith
   The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2023, 30, (3), 410-442
   See also Working Paper Liberty, political economy and good government in Adam Smith, Post-Print (2023) (2023)
2. Rawls’s maximin and optimal taxation theory
   The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2023, 30, (5), 860-882 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Rawls's maximin and optimal taxation theory, Post-Print (2023) View citations (1) (2023)
3. The wealth of humans: core, periphery and frontiers of humanomics
   Journal of Economic Methodology, 2023, 30, (1), 15-33
   See also Working Paper The wealth of humans: core, periphery and frontiers of humanomics, Post-Print (2022) (2022)

2021

4. Adam Smith’s view of economic inequality
   Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2021, 45, (1), 209-224 View citations (1)
5. Christian Maurer, Self-Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis: Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 240, 75£ (hardcover). ISBN: 9781474413374
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2021, 43, (1), 161-164

2019

6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Ethics, Politics and Economics, by Maria Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen, Craig Smith
   The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2019, 26, (2), 417-420
7. SCHUMPETER’S ASSESSMENT OF ADAM SMITH AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS: WHY HE GOT IT WRONG
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2019, 41, (4), 531-551
   See also Working Paper Schumpeter’s Assessment of Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations: Why He Got It Wrong, Discussion Papers (2015) View citations (2) (2015)

2017

8. Istvan Hont, Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith, Edited by Béla Kapossy and Michael Sonenscher (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2015), pp. 160, $35. ISBN 978-0-674-96770-0
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2017, 39, (1), 128-133
9. Smith and Rousseau on envy in commercial societies
   The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2017, 24, (6), 1214-1246 View citations (1)

2015

10. Adam Smith on the subordination of wage-earners in the commercial society
    The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015, 22, (4), 692-727 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Adam Smith on the subordination of wage-earners in the commercial society, Post-Print (2015) View citations (5) (2015)
11. The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith, by Christopher J. Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli, Craig Smith
    The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015, 22, (2), 340-343

2014

12. Vertus et justice du marché chez Adam Smith
    Revue économique, 2014, 65, (2), 419-438

2012

13. Adam Smith, philosopher and man of the world. A review essay on Gavin Kennedy, Adam Smith: A Moral Philosopher and His Political Economy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
    History of Economic Ideas, 2012, 20, (1), 185-191 View citations (3)
14. GROWTH AND PROGRESS IN ADAM SMITH’S THOUGHT
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2012, 34, (1), 131-132
    See also Working Paper Growth and progress in Adam Smith's thought, Post-Print (2012) (2012)

2011

15. Corruption of workers, and education in commercial societies according to Adam Smith
    Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political Economy, 2011, (60), 11-44

2010

16. Adam Smith’s economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The language of commerce
    History of Economic Ideas, 2010, 18, (1), 11-32 View citations (2)
    See also Chapter Adam Smith’s Economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: The Language of Commerce, Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, 2022, 141-166 (2022) (2022)
    Working Paper Adam Smith's Economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The Language of Commerce, Post-Print (2010) View citations (1) (2010)

Books

2022

1. Adam Smith’s System
   Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, Palgrave Macmillan

Chapters

2022

1. Adam Smith’s Economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: The Language of Commerce
   Palgrave Macmillan
   See also Working Paper Adam Smith's Economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The Language of Commerce, HAL (2010) View citations (1) (2010)
   Journal Article Adam Smith’s economics and the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The language of commerce, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma (2010) View citations (2) (2010)
2. Adam Smith’s Reasoning Routines and the Deep Structure of His Oeuvre
   Palgrave Macmillan
3. Conclusion
   Palgrave Macmillan
4. Correction to: Adam Smith’s System
   Palgrave Macmillan
5. Introduction
   Palgrave Macmillan
6. The Proper Role for Government, Game-Theoretically, for Smith
   Palgrave Macmillan
7. The Rhetorical Structure of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (and What Caused It)
   Palgrave Macmillan