Select Publications

 

Book

Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and Moral Theory.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in Ideas in Context series), forthcoming 2009.

Articles and chapters

“Whose Context? Which Impartiality? Reflections on Griswold’s Smith,” Perspectives on Political Science, vol. 30, no. 3 (Summer 2001): 146-50.

“Adam Smith as globalization theorist,” Critical Review, vol.14, no. 4 (2002): 391-419.

“The emergence of contextualism in Rousseau’s political thought: The case of Parisian theatre in the Lettre à d’Alembert,” History of Political Thought, vol. XXIV, no. 3 (Autumn 2003):435-63.

“Sympathy in space(s): Adam Smith on proximity,” Political Theory (2005), vol. 33, no. 2 (April 2005): 189-217. 

“Smith on “connexion", culture and judgement” in New Voices on Adam Smith, eds. Leonidas Montes and Eric Schliesser (London: Routledge, 2006): 89-114.

"Adam Smith" Encycplopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir (Sage, forthcoming 2009).

"Smith's anti-cosmopolitanism," Adam Smith Review Vol. 5, A special issue to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, eds. Samuel Fleischacker and Vivienne Brown (forthcoming, 2009).



Edited symposia

“Is Life a Marketplace? A Symposium on James R. Otteson’s Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life,” ed. with introduction, Adam Smith Review, 2 (2006): 195-222. 

“Smith in Contexts: A Symposium on Knud Haakonssen’s Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith,” ed. with introduction, “Interdisciplinarity in Smith Studies” Adam Smith Review 4 (2008): 217-253.

Review essays and book reviews

“Book Review” Charles L. Griswold, Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment  (Cambridge 1999). Political Theory, vol. 28, no. 1 (February 2000): 122-30.

“And thus spoke the spectator: Adam Smith for humanitarians” on Luc Boltanski, Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics (Cambridge, 1999).  Adam Smith Review I (Fall 2004): 167-174.

“Book Review”, Jennifer Pitts, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton 2005).  Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 2. (2007), pp. 265-267.