Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ROBERT F. GARNETT, JR., PAUL LEWIS, AND LENORE T. EALY

PART I
Social cooperation

  1  The evolution of human cooperation

SAMUEL BOWLES AND HERBERT GINTIS

  2  The theory of social cooperation historically and robustly contemplated

PETER J. BOETTKE AND DANIEL J. SMITH

  3  Commerce and beneficence: Adam Smith’s unfinished project

ROBERT F. GARNETT, JR.

  4  Comment: Entering the “great school of self-command”: the moralizing influence of markets, language, and imagination

SANDRA J. PEART

PART II
Identity and association

  5  Commerce, reciprocity, and civil virtues: the contribution of the Civil Economy

LUIGINO BRUNI

  6  What does true individualism really involve? Overcoming market–philanthropy dualism in Hayekian social theory

PAUL LEWIS

  7  Methodological individualism and invisible hands: Richard Cornuelle’s call to understand associations

STEVEN GROSBY

  8  Comment: Don’t forget the barter in “truck, barter and exchange”!

SHAUN P. HARGREAVES HEAP

PART III
Human(e) economics

  9  Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: the stories we tell

EMILY CHAMLEE-WRIGHT AND VIRGIL HENRY STORR

10  Community, the market, and the state: insights from German neoliberalism

SAMUEL GREGG

11  Bourgeois love

DEIRDRE MCCLOSKEY

12  Comment: Behind the veil of interest

LAURENT DOBUZINSKIS

PART IV
Entangled spheres

13  How is community made?

COLIN DANBY

14  Commerce, community, and digital gifts

DAVE ELDER-VASS

15  Classical liberalism and the firm: a troubled relationship

DAVID ELLERMAN

16  Comment: Exploring the liminal spaces between commerce and community

MARTHA A. STARR

PART V
Not by commerce alone

17  Reciprocity, calculation, and non-monetary exchange

STEVEN HORWITZ

18  Kidneys, commerce, and communities

NEERA K. BADHWAR

19  Banks and trust in Adam Smith

MARIA PIA PAGANELLI

20  Comment: Bankers, vampires, and organ sellers: who can you trust?

JOHN THRASHER AND DAVID SCHMIDTZ

Envoi

The Apologia of Mercurius

FREDERICK TURNER

Index