West’s “Cantillon and Adam Smith”: A Comment

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Roger W. Garrison

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Students and admirers of Adam Smith will welcome Edwin West’s reappraisal of the relationship between Smith and Cantillon. They have come to expect that each new effort by West will be a treat, and they have come to accept that each will be ever so slightly biased in favor of Smith. West’s readers will not be disappointed with the present treat, and they will find that West has been eminently fair to both Adam Smith and Richard Cantillon.

Volume 7, Number 2 (1985)

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Garrison, Roger W. “West’s “Cantillon and Adam Smith” : A Comment.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 7, No. 2 (1985): 287–294.

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