Just Sentiments: 22 More Smithian Essays

ISBN 10: 1957698187 / ISBN 13: 9781957698182

Published by Fraser Institute, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Just Sentiments: 22 More Smithian Essays
• Publisher: Fraser Institute
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1957698187
• ISBN 13: 9781957698182
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Just Sentiments is a monthly essay series located (since April 2025) at the Cato

Institute's website Libertarianism.org. The series is edited by Daniel Klein and Erik

Matson, in conjunction with Jonathan Fortier and his team at Libertarianism.org.

Collected here are the 22 essays that appeared during 2024-2025. Each author

draws on his or her own lengthier scholarly works, to offer interpretations

that are important, textually grounded, and compactly expressed.

The topics are: Adam Smith on upside and downside; Adam Smith as Solon; David Hume's Protestant ethic; Adam Smith and angels with dirty faces; Adam Smith, Julian Simon, pro-natalism; the welfare state and generosity; the practical roles of the ideal; Mary Wollstonecraft; three modes of patriotism; pride and vanity; looking for love; from clan to social grammar; Swedish origins of political 'liberal'; economics as a moral science; correcting superiors from below; Adam Smith and the Navigation Acts; George Anne Bellamy and Adam Smith; Joseph Priestley's two concepts of liberty; Montaigne, author of On Voluntary Servitude; Abraham Kuyper; Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois; Robber and government.