The Wealth of Nations (Everyman's Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067940564X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 600 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Great intro to economics from the guy who founded it" according to Amazon Customer. Great intro to economics from the guy who founded it. Provides a very intuitive foundation for all the economics that emerges from 1776 to now. Only problem is all the examples are from a bygone economy and not readily familiar to contemporary readers. Also, I could do without 70 pages chronicling the price of silver from 1Great intro to economics from the guy who founded it Amazon Customer Great intro to economics from the guy who founded it. Provides a very intuitive foundation for all the economics that emerges from 1776 to now. Only problem is all the examples are from a bygone economy and not readily familiar to contemporary readers. Also, I could do without 70 pages chronicling the price of silver from 1400 until 1770. Maybe the abridged version would do.. 00 until 1770. Maybe the abridged version would do.. "Classic book and made to read efficiently" according to Tallon Howie. Classic political economy book. You don't have to read the book to understand his main points, but if you want to understand how he reaches his conclusions it's very interesting. You can skip over most of the chapters and read selectively.The condition of the book was okay. There are cool side columns that summarize each paragraph if you want to skim through some parts or find a particular section.. "Great book, but Modern Library's Kindle edition is poorly formatted" according to Zeldock. After some 6 months of buying Kindle books, I've found that the better-known publishers as often as not DON'T do a better job of formatting their titles for Kindle. The Modern Library's Kindle version of "The Wealth of Nations" is a case in point. The footnotes, which appear at the end of each chapter, are all run together in one big paragraph, without any numbers to show where each footnote begins. Moreover, while the footnote refe
"Adam Smith's enormous authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we discover in Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to the bottom of things."--Robert L. Heilbroner
While its most remarkable and enduring innovation was to see the whole of economic life as a unified system, it is notable also as one of the Enlightenment’s most eloquent testaments to the sanctity of the individual in his relation to the state. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed). Adam Smith’s celebrated defense of free market economies was written with such expressive power and clarity that the first edition sold out in six months. Published in 1776, in the same year as the Declaration of Independence, T
After lecturing for a period, he held several teaching positions at Glasgow University. His greatest achievement was writing The Wealth of Nations (1776), a five-book series that sought to expose the true causes of prosperity, and installed him as the father of contemporary economic thought. . Adam Smith was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1723. He entered the University of Glasgow at age fourteen, and later attended B