The notes are reproduced in full from the hand-written notes and marginalia which appear in Lauderdale's own edition of The Wealth of Nations along with the relevant passages to which they refer.

Chuhei Sugiyama is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Tokyo Keizai University. He has extensive teaching and research experience both in Japan and the UK. He is highly regarded as both an economist and a historian of economic thought.

Introduction and Plan of the Work; Part I Book I; Part II Book II; Part III Book III; Part IV Book IV; Part V Book V;