Introduction / Alexander Dow and Sheila Dow John Law and the Scottish Enlightenment / Antoin Murphy Francis Hutcheson / Andrew Skinner David Hume as a political economist / Carl Wennerlind Sir James Steuart, Principles of political oeconomy / Andrew Skinner Adam Smith, real Newtonian / Leonidas Montes Adam Smith, common sense and aesthetics in the age of experiments / Flavio Comim James Mill as economist, theory dominated by deductive method / Thomas Torrance John Ramsay McCulloch / D.P. O'Brien The place of Thomas Chalmers in Scottish political economy / A.M.C. Waterman John Rae / Douglas Mair Economics in the Scottish universities from the late nineteenth century / Alexander Dow and Alan Hutton Applied economics in the twentieth century / Alan Hutton Postscript / Sheila Dow.