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“... was indebted to Hume for some of his ideas about economics, but this question is not argued in Knud Haakonssen’s scholarly book. Dr Haakonssen is primarily interested in Smith’s theory of jurisprudence and the conception of justice with which it is allied, and it is here that he seeks and discovers the influence ...”

“... jurisprudence as the governing element in Smith’s science of society, with the result, in Knud Haakonssen’s work, that Smith’s stadialist account of human history is recast as a juridical story of the emergence of differing conceptions of property. In what might be construed as a further refinement to the non-existent Adam Smith ...”