Das Adam Smith Problem and Faculty Psychology in the Antebellum North.

The article discusses the economist Adam Smith, examining how Americans in the 19th-century received his message. The Americans in question, the author states, were Christians in the developing market-capitalist antebellum North. Topics include an analysis of Smith's books "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," how Christian ethics and a Christian God were able to fit into Smith's world-view, and the manner in which 19th-century Americans attempted to resolve tensions between the economical and the ethical.