Table of Contents

Part I: Hume’s Economic Thought in Historical Contexts 1. Hume’s Philosophical Economics 2. Hume’s Political Economy as a System of Manners 3. Hume’s "Early Memoranda" and the Making of His Political Economy 4. Hume’s Economic Theory 5. The Historical Contexts of Hume’s Economic Thought 6. Anonymous Writings of David Hume Part II: Hume and Smith in Japan and the West 7. Adam Smith’s Dialogue with Rousseau and Hume, Yoshihiko Uchida and the Birth of the Wealth of Nations 8. Adam Smith’s "Sympathy" in Modern Japanese Perspectives 9. Adam Smith and Yukichi Fukuzawa: Between Sympathy and Independence/ Self-Respect 10. A Personal Recollection: Hume and Smith in Japan and the West

About the Author

Tatsuya Sakamoto, Professor of Economics, Keio University, Japan

Reviews

"This excellent book brings together the major contributions to the study of David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Scottish Enlightenment by Tatsuya Sakamoto, a leading Japanese scholar of the history of social and economic thought."Estrella Trincado, History of Political Economy"This excellent book brings together the major contributions to the study of David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Scottish Enlightenment by Tatsuya Sakamoto, a leading Japanese scholar of the history of social and economic thought. Sakamoto has studied the connections between the intellectual history of the East and the West, and, in the final section of this book, he explores how Smith’s ideas have influenced Japanese intellectuals since the early Meiji period."-Estrella Trincado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, HOPE reviews