Fonna Forman - The Adam Smith Review: Volume 10

Christopher J. Berry is Professor (Emeritus) of Political Theory and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. In addition to seminal articles, he co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith (Oxford 2013) and is the author of seven books, including The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh UP 2013, Japanese translation forthcoming, Chinese translation forthcoming), Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh UP 1997, Chinese translation 2013), The Idea of Luxury (Cambridge UP 1994, Chinese translation 2005) and David Hume (Continuum 2009). He has given an invited series of lectures in Japan, China on several occasions, as well as in Chile, Europe and the US. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotlands National Academy), of which Adam Smith was a founder member.

Deborah Boucoyannis is Assistant Professor of Politics, specializing in the theoretical and historical origins of liberalism and the state. Her book From Roving to Stationary Judges (Cambridge University Press, 2017) takes a historical approach to a contemporary question: how do liberal regimes emerge and what are the preconditions to state building? She focuses on the constitutive role of courts and systems of law in premodern Europe, as opposed to economic or geopolitical explanations. The dissertation on which it is based received the APSA Ernst Haas Best Dissertation Award in European Politics and the Seymour Martin Lipset Best Dissertation Award from the Society for Comparative Research. She also works on political economy, especially of taxation, and political theory. Her article on Adam Smith, The Equalizing Hand in Perspectives on Politics (December 2013) argues that Smiths system does not predict the inequalities that are believed, even among his best progressive interpreters, to flow inevitably from the market economy.

Laurie Brban is an Associate Professor in Economics at the Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne, full researcher in history of economic thought at PHARE (Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne). Her research deals with Adam Smiths work from two perspectives. The first one is related to what we call today decision theory. Part of her work aims at putting to the fore the elements of a moral theory of decision which crosses both the authors economic and moral writings and which is able to challenge nowadays representations of economic behaviors. The second perspective is more historiographic and concerns Adam Smiths intellectual relations as well as the reception of his work by his contemporaries.

Keegan Callanan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College. His research is in early modern political thought, and he is currently completing a book manuscript on the political philosophy of Montesquieu. His most recent publications include articles in History of Political Thought and Political Research Quarterly .

Il emeli has a PhD from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey). She is currently working as a Research Associate at METU. She is interested in the Scottish Enlightenment, eighteenth-century literature and moral philosophy. Her interests also include ancient Greek tragedies and ancient moral philosophy.

Eleanor Courtemanche is Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Director of Graduate Studies in English. Her article Satire and the Inevitability Effect: The Structure of Utopian Fiction from Looking Backward to Portlandia , was published in the June 2015 issue of MLQ, and she recently published two encyclopedia articles on the Fabian Society. She is working on a book entitled Fragile Capitalism about descriptions of capitalist crisis before Keynes.

Sergio Cremaschi (Bergamo 1949) was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont. Besides translating extensively from German, French, Spanish and English into Italian, he published a number of papers or chapters in ethics and economic philosophy. He authored two books in English: Utilitarianism and Malthuss Virtue Ethics. Respectable, Virtuous and Happy (2014); Normativity Within the Bounds of Plural Reasons. The Applied Ethics Revolution (2007). Six more books were published in Italian: Moral Traditions. Greeks, Jews, Christians and Muslim (2015); A Short History of Ethics (2012); Modern Ethics. From the Reformation to Nietzsche (2007); Nineteenth-Century Ethics. After Nietzsche (2005); The Wealth System. Adam Smith on Method and Political Economy (1984); Automaton Spirituale. Spinozas Theory of the Passions (1979). He is presently working on a book on David Ricardo.

Hilary N. Fezzey is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, where she teaches courses in British literature, world literature, and literary theory in the English Program in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She is also a member of the Gender Studies and Global Studies faculty. She received her BA from Northern Michigan University and her MA and PhD. from Purdue University. She has an essay in the book collection, Re-viewing Thomas Holcroft, 17451809 , published by Ashgate in 2012. She also collaborated with colleagues from other disciplines on an essay on global learning in the forthcoming book, Big Picture Pedagogy: Finding Interdisciplinary Solutions to Common Learning Problems to be published by Jossey-Bass.