Research trends in global environmental politics / Peter Dauvergne -- When regimes backfire : institutional expectations and environmental deadlock / J. Samuel Barkin -- Changing issue structure to avoid free riders : protecting the ocean environment / Elizabeth R. DeSombre -- International...

Adam Smith (1721-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions. He is best known as the author of the 'An Inquiry into the Nature' and 'Causes of the Wealth of Nations' (1776). Yet his work is name-checked more often than it is read and then typically...