My colleague and friend Salim Rashid and I have been working on a new book-length manuscript tentatively titled Adam Smith Problems. (Here is our first draft.) In summary, we survey a wide variety of open problems and unsolved mysteries regarding Adam Smith the political economist (Chapters 1 & 2), Adam Smith the moral philosopher (Chapter 3), Adam Smith the rhetorician and law scholar (Chapter 4), Adam Smith the disenchanted student (Chapter 5) and the college dropout (Chapter 6), Adam Smith the professor (Chapter 7), Adam Smith the tourist and tutor (Chapter 8), Adam Smith the devotee of Voltaire (Chapter 9), Adam Smith the beloved (Chapters 10 & 11), and Adam Smith the customs commissioner (Chapter 12), just to name a few. Starting tomorrow, we will explore some open questions about Smith’s most famous work, The Wealth of Nations.


