Maria Pia Paganelli publishes regularly in History of Political Economy (HOPE), The Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET), and History of Economic Ideas (HEI). She wrote the Routledge Guidebook of Smith’s Wealth of Nations (2020).
The European Society for the History of Economic Thought awarded her HOPE 2008 “The Adam Smith Problem in Reverse: Self-Interest in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and Theory of Moral Sentiments” the prize of Best Article of the Year (2009). She was the book review editor for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the vice-president of the History of Economics Society, and she is the current president of the International Adam Smith Society.