The Wealth of Nations: Complete Works

Name: The Wealth of Nations: Complete Works
Author: Adam Smith
ISBN: 9781787360785

Author: Adam Smith
Language: English
Length: 972 pages
ISBN: 9781787360785
Published: 17 November 2019
Imprint: Adelphi Press

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The book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets.

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Adam Smith (1723–1790) taught Europe to look at bakers, pin-makers, and the division of labour as if they were as interesting as kings. The Wealth of Nations is a map of how nations grow rich; Moral Sentiments is a map of how we become decent. Smith is often recruited as a prophet of unfettered markets; the books are wiser and sterner than the slogan. He wrote with a lecturer's clarity and a novelist's eye for motive.

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