Guerra-Pujol on A Plea to Adam Smith Scholars

F. E. Guerra-Pujol, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico; University of Central Florida, has published A Plea to Adam Smith Scholars. Here is the abstract.

My plea to Adam Smith scholars is this: stop citing Adam Smith's Lectures on Jurisprudence (Smith 1978) without proper qualification, let alone a disclaimer. Although this work purports to be a primary source--a transcription of Smith's law lectures at the University of Glasgow--these student lecture notes pose two practical problems. One is that we have no idea how faithful or accurate this transcription of Smith's law lectures is. The other problem is that Smith himself may have repudiated the ideas contained in those early law lectures.

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.