ADAM SMITH: REFLECTIONS ON THE BICENTENNIAL REAPPRAISAL

Abstract

In 1976, amid the vastly greater celebrations of the bicentennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, there was the greatest orgy of historical nostalgia in the history of economics, occasioned by the bi‐centenary of the Wealth of Nations. In addition to a veritable deluge of scholarly books, articles, pamphlets, conferences, and symposia, and also innumerable popular and ephemeral effusions, all the mass media were enlisted. There were countless magazine and newspaper articles, some radio and T.V. programs, at least one especially commissioned technicolor film and, for all I know, there may also have been bicentennial poems, paintings, sculptures, and choral symphones!

Citation

COATS, A.W. (1979), "ADAM SMITH: REFLECTIONS ON THE BICENTENNIAL REAPPRAISAL", Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028608