Abstract

1. After Adam Smith: prologue Part I. Adam Smith's Science of the Legislator: 2. An excessive solicitude for posthumous reputation 3. The secret concatenation 4. The wisdom of Solomon Part II. Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Factious Citizens: 5. Contested affinities 6. The loss of regal government 7. Burke's creed: politics, chivalry, and superstition 8. The labouring poor Part III. Robert Malthus as Political Moralist: 9. Imminence and immediacy: initial bearings 10. New and extraordinary lights 11. Rather a matter of feeling than argument 12. A manufacturing animal: things not persons? 13. The bountiful gift of providence 14. Last things and other legacies Part IV: 15. Epilogue.

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