Smith’s peculiar little essay on language
Over at the new Adam Smith website, I have a 2000 word essay on Smith’s strange paper on language. Smith is a large part of the argument of V&R, but as with some much of his work I see the figure of Lord Shaftesbury at work: https://www.adamsmithworks.org/life_times/the-place-of-language-in-adam-smith-s-economics