Deirdre McCloskey asked:
>but am I to understand that
>Oxford has imposed commercial fees on scholarly uses of the Glasgow
>editions?

The short answer is "yes". But it's not exactly a "commercial fee", in the
sense of a royalty (it's a flat fee: 950 sterling in my case). If they'd sought a percentage of MY likely royalties from my book, I'm confident their 
take would have come to less than that!



I particularly agree with John Medaille's fundamental point, that " 'private' property is
 ... a government question" -- though I would rather put it that "property" 
only exists by way of positive law ("possession" and "property" are not 
the same thing). As it happens, this is in fact one theme of the policy 
chapter of my Smith book!


Tony Aspromourgos