Wealth of NationsAdam Smith revolutionized economic theory with his 1776 work An Inquiry to the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. He proposed rules governing labor, supply, and demand; and describes division of labor, stockpiling of wealth, lending, and interest. Smith also discusses how economies lead to opulence. Wealth of Nations also offers a defense for free-market capitalism. This edition of Wealth of Nations is an abridged version edited by Harvard economics professor CHARLES JESSE BULLOCK (1869-1941) and published in 1901 by Harvard Classics, a series that offered the essential readings for anyone who wanted the functional equivalent of a liberal arts education. Any student of economics should be familiar with the concepts and laws that Smith developed, as much of economic theory is still based upon his work. Scottish economist and philosopher ADAM SMITH (1723-1790) helped set standards in the fields of political economics and moral philosophy, playing a key role in the early development of the scholarship of economics. His other writings include Essays on Philosophical Subjects. |
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Contents
| 9 | |
| 19 | |
Of the Origin and Use of Money | 29 |
Price fa labour and Their Price in Money | 36 |
Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities | 58 |
Of the Wages of Labour | 68 |
Of the Profits of Stock | 93 |
and Stock | 105 |
BOOK II | 221 |
Of Money Considered as a Particular Branch of the General | 233 |
BOOK | 319 |
BOOK IV | 325 |
Such Goods as Can Be Produced at Home | 348 |
of Almost All Kinds from Those Countries with which | 370 |
Economy Which Represent the Produce of Land as Either | 446 |
BOOK V | 464 |
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Page 10 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Page 20 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
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| Title | Wealth of Nations Cosimo Classics Series Cosimo classics economics |
| Author | Adam Smith |
| Editor | Charles J. Bullock |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Cosimo, Inc., 2007 |
| ISBN | 1602069395, 9781602069398 |
| Length | 596 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic History Business & Economics / Economics / Theory History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) |
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