1801 New Ann. Reg. 1800 261/1 We cannot say, however, that his arguments are sufficiently strong and convincing to refute the doctrine of the Smithian school.

1835 R. Cobden Eng., Ireland & Amer. (ed. 2) 30 Why should not at least our greatest..towns possess their Smithian Societies, devoted to the purpose of promulgating the beneficent truths of the ‘Wealth of Nations’?.

1891 W. S. Lilly Shibboleths 198 The whole Smithian school of political economists.

1909 A. W. Small Cameralists xxi. 575 Sonnenfels had only in the faintest degree begun to generalize economic problems in the Smithian manner.

1970 D. P. O'Brien J. R. McCulloch xvi. 404 McCulloch's analysis of the gains from trade is essentially Smithian and dynamic.

2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Apr. 21/3 He distinguishes two kinds of economic growth—the ‘Smithian’ variety that reflects Adam Smith's vision..and a..variety that is driven by continuous technological innovation.

1847 Morning Post 23 Jan. 4/4 It is difficult to suppose that Lord John Russell can really be so gross a bigot to Adam Smithianism as to believe there was no soundness in the remarks which had been made.]

1880 Nation 4 Mar. 170/2 It is impossible to deny..a hostility to the results of what is called ‘Smithianism’—a use of the name of Adam Smith that would cause that worthy to turn in his grave.

1952 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 66 210 In Asia as in Europe, the original Smithianism brought a sweepingly liberal philosophy.

2009 Monumenta Nipponica 64 200 His [sc. Roesler's] early writings established his reputation as a critic of ‘Manchesterian liberalism’ and ‘Smithianism’.

1813 Philos. Mag. 42 357 That very erroneous and dangerous dogma of the Anglo-Wernerian Theorists, viz. that the kind of stone or mineralogical characters of a substance..will fix its place in the series of strata; but which Smithian observers, well know to be untrue.

1819 Philos. Mag. 54 133 A stratigraphical or Smithian arrangement of the fossil shells.

1934 Pan-Amer. Geologist 61 40 James Hall evidently has something of the same Smithian principles in mind.

2001 J. Morrell in C. L. E. Lewis & S. J. Knell Age Earth 86/1 An exercise in Smithian stratigraphy which correlated Yorkshire strata with those of southwest England.