| Introduction: Back to Adam? | 1 |
| Pt. I | Adam Smith in His Time | |
| 1 | Cosmopolitan Provincial: Smith's Life and Social Milieu | 15 |
| 2 | Gentlemen, Consumers, and the Fiscal-Military State | 28 |
| 3 | Self-Love and Self-Command: The Intellectual Origins of Smith's Civilizing Project | 39 |
| Pt. II | Designing the Decent Society | |
| 4 | The Market: From Self-Love to Universal Opulence | 63 |
| 5 | The Legislator and the Merchant | 77 |
| 6 | Social Science as the Anticipation of the Unanticipated | 84 |
| 7 | Commercial Humanism: Smith's Civilizing Project | 93 |
| 8 | "The Impartial Spectator" | 100 |
| 9 | The Historical and Institutional Foundations of Commercial Society | 113 |
| 10 | The Moral Balance Sheet of Commercial Society | 131 |
| 11 | The Visible Hand of the State | 140 |
| 12 | Applied Policy Analysis: Smith's Sociology of Religion | 154 |
| 13 | "A Small Party": Moral and Political Leadership in Commercial Society | 164 |
| Pt. III | From Smith's Time to Ours | |
| 14 | Critics, Friendly and Unfriendly | 177 |
| 15 | Some Unanticipated Consequences of Smith's Rhetoric | 185 |
| 16 | The Timeless and the Timely | 194 |
| Notes | 206 |
| Guide to Further Reading | 240 |
| Acknowledgments | 262 |
| Index | 265 |
