"The Wealth of Nations" is an influential text published by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith in 1776. Its full title is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations".

In 1926, the 150th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, British economist Edwin Cannan delivered a lecture titled "Adam Smith as Economist" at the London School of Economics. The lecture was ...

Admirers of Adam Smith may be surprised to learn that ... His magnum opus, “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (1776), made the case that economic growth is ...

Adam Smith is not who you think he is ... Scottish thinker was not only an economist and the author of The Wealth of Nations; he was also a moral philosopher and the author of The Theory of ...

In Wealth of Nations, Smith suggested the same course for the American colonies. He proposed that Americans send parliamentarians to sit as equals in Westminster. Just as Scotland belonged to ...

In doing so, however, they provide further evidence that Adam Smith got there first. Before discussing the concept of value in “The Wealth of Nations” (1776), Smith notes the importance of ...

Why would Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, be appalled -- like any sane observer -- by the arrest and ...

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If Adam Smith is to be made "accessible" in these days, an abbreviated edition of "The Wealth of Nations" is necessary. This present little volume gives the substance of that epoch-making book.