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I have a section in a new book that I am preparing for Duke University 
Press, The Invention of Capitalism, of all the people who used Sir James 
Steuart without attribution, Adam Smith included.  In one letter, Smith 
wrote, "I have the same opinion of Sir James Steuarts [sic] book that you 
have. Without mentioning it, I flatter myself that any fallacious 
principle in it will meet a clear and distinct confutation in mine" 
(Mossner and Ross 1977, pp. 163-64; Rae 1895, pp. 253-54). 
 
Of course, he did not merely refute Steuart profited from him. 
 
Michael Perelman 
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