It is argued that David Hume's approach to economic, political, and historical issues discloses a unity of purpose and of method and further that the Writings on Economics profoundly affected the shape which Sir James Steuart's Principles was to assume. While Adam Smith's work also shows the...

In 1976 Bob Black delivered a lecture on the subject of ‘Smith’s Contribution in Historical Perspective’. The lecture was delivered on the occasion of the bicentenary conference held in Glasgow, and published in the same year. Black recalled that his brief was to review the ways in which...