Introduction / Maria Fia Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen, Craig Smith -- On the place of politics in commercial society / R yan Patrick Hanley -- Rousseau and the Scottish enlightenment: connections and disconnections / Mark Hulliung -- The role of interpersonal comparisons in moral learning and the sources of recognition respect: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's amour-propre and Adam Smith's sympathy / Christel Fricke -- Actors and spectators: Rousseau's contribution to the eighteenth-century debate on self-interest / Mark J. Hill -- Pursuing sympathy without vanity: interpreting Smith's critique of Rousseau through Smith's critique of Mandeville / John McHugh -- Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the vices of the marketplace / Michael Schleeter -- Julie's Garden and the impartial spectator: an examination of Smithian themes in Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse / Tabitha Baker -- Sentimental conviction: Rousseau's apologia and the impartial spectator / Adam Schoene -- Being and appearing: self-falsification, exchange and freedom in Rousseau and Adam Smith / Charles L. Griswold -- Citizens, markets and social order: an Aristotelian reading of Smith and Rousseau on justice / Jimena Hurtado -- Smith, Rousseau and the true spirit of a republican / Dennis C. Rasmussen -- Left to their own devices: Smith and Rousseau on public opinion and the role of the state / J ason Neidleman -- ' Savage Patriotism', justice and cosmopolitics in Smith and Rousseau / Neil Saccamano