Adam Smith’s Theory of Value and Distribution: Economics as a Moral Science Once Again

This book provides a close reading of Adam Smith’s theory of value, and also incorporates material from other parts of Smith’s oeuvre. The book operates on the assumption that Smith is proposing relatively simple ideas about price and takes a conventional view that simple Supply and Demand models can illuminate his theory of price.

Jeffrey T. Young is Emeritus Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, USA. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in Economics and Business at Gordon College, Wenham, MA, USA. He has published extensively on Adam Smith including Economics as a Moral Science: The Political Economy of Adam Smith, (1997). He currently resides in Springvale, Maine, where he continues to work on the moral philosophical underpinnings of Smith’s economics.