Adam Smith update: June 2026

🫧 Open on Bubbles At the Adam Smith conference in Paris that I attended earlier this month (10 June; see here ), historian Emma Rothschild (pictured below, along with the cover of her beautiful 2021 book An Infinite History ) brought to my attention the following fact: between the publication of the second and third editions of his Wealth of Nations , the Scottish scholar published a separate 79-page pamphlet titled Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into