Front Matter
Editorial Staff

[Introduction]
Ronald H. Coase

1776 A Year of Challenge--A World Transformed
Bernard Bailyn

Thomas Jefferson and the Right to Property in Revolutionary America
Stanley N. Katz

Gibbon and the Publication of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1976
H. R. Trevor-Roper

Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations
Terence Hutchison

Adam Smith's View of Man
Ronald H. Coase

Bentham and the United States of America
H. L. A. Hart

Blackstone and Bentham
Richard A. Posner

Turgot: Paragon of the Continental Enlightenment
R. R. Palmer

The Legacy of 1776 in Legal and Economic Thought
Morton J. Horwitz