Foreword--Rt Hon. Gordon Brown * Preface: A Scotsman Looks at the World * The Life of an Absent-minded Professor * A Weak State and a Weak Church * A Non-religious Grounding of Morals: Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment * Merriment and Diversion: Smith on Public Finance and Public Choice * The Invisible Hand and the Helping Hand * The French and the American Smiths * Adam Smith Today Foreword--Rt Hon. Gordon Brown * Preface: A Scotsman Looks at the World * The Life of an Absent-minded Professor * A Weak State and a Weak Church * A Non-religious Grounding of Morals: Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment * Merriment and Diversion: Smith on Public Finance and Public Choice * The Invisible Hand and the Helping Hand * The French and the American Smiths * Adam Smith Today.