Christopher J. Berry is Professor (Emeritus) of Political Theory and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He has established himself as a leading international scholar of the Scottish Enlightenment. In addition to seminal articles, and contributions in this area, he is the author of the key text Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh, 1997), which is shortly to appear in both Japanese and Chinese translations His scholarship ranges more widely. He is the author of six books, including The Idea of Luxury (Cambridge, 1994 Chinese translation, 2005) and David Hume (Continuum 2009). He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which Adam Smith was a founder member. His book The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh) is scheduled to appear in 2013.

Maria Pia Paganelli is an assistant professor of economics at Trinity University. She works on Adam Smith, David Hume, 18th century monetary theories, and also explores the links between the Scottish Enlightenment and the results from behavioural economics. She won the 2009 European Society of the History of Economic Thought's Best Article of the Year prize and is book review editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Craig Smith is a lecturer in the Department of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He works on the history of political thought with particular reference to the eighteenth century and the Scottish Enlightenment. He is the author of Adam Smith's Political Philosophy: The Invisible Hand and Spontaneous Order (Routledge, 2006) and is book review editor of the Adam Smith Review.

Michael C. Amrozowicz, The State University of New York at Albany
Tony Aspromourgos, University of Sydney
Christopher J. Berry, University of Glasgow
Richard Boyd, Georgetown University
Tom Campbell, Australian National University
James Chandler, University of Chicago
Christel Fricke, Heidelberg University
Samuel Fleischacker, University of Illinois-Chicago
Ryan Patrick Hanley, Marquette University
Maureen Harkin, Reed College
Eugene Heath, State University of New York
Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge
Gavin Kennedy, Heriot-Watt University
Catherine Labio, University of Colorado at Boulder
David M. Levy, George Mason University
Leonidas Montes, University of Cambridge
Nerio Naldi, University of Rome 'La Sapienza'
Spencer J. Pack, Connecticut College
Maria Pia Paganelli, Trinity University
Nicholas Phillipson, Edinburgh University
Sandra J. Peart, University of Richmond
Dennis C. Rasmussen, Tufts University
Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University
Amartya Sen, Harvard University
Fabrizio Simon, University of Palermo
Craig Smith, The University of St Andrews
C. Jan Swearingen, Texas A&M University
Spiros Tegos, The University of Crete
Edwin van de Haar, Ateneo de Manila University

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