亚当·斯密的政治学是怎样的?这个问题本身就构成对传统观点的质疑和挑战。200多年来,关于亚当·斯密在政治思想史上的地位,学界似乎达成了惊人的一致:就“政治”(politics)这个单词所具有的任何重要意义而言,亚当·斯密的政治学要不是消失了,就是被更具力量的经济学说侵蚀掉了,是“经济”(economics)占据了《国富论》的心脏地带(6～7页)。所以,重新发现亚当·斯密政治学的努力就要彻底抛弃这 Adam Smith’s political science is like? This question itself constitutes a traditional view of the challenge and challenge. For more than two centuries, the academic community seems to have reached an astonishing agreement about Adam Smith’s position in the history of political thought: in any significant sense of the word “politics,” Adam Smith’s politics Learning is not vanishing, it is being eroded by more powerful economic doctrines that “economics” occupy the heart of “Wealth of Nations” (pp. 6-7). Therefore, the effort to rediscover Adam Smith’s political science will be completely abandoned