An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS) - Softcover

Smith, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192817965 ISBN 13: 9780192817969

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 1993

Synopsis

While it has been pointed to time and again by governments promoting laissez-faire economics, the Wealth of Nations actually shows that Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspicion. This edition includes generous selections from all five books of the Wealth of Nations and features notes and commentary.

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From the Inside Flap:

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich's new Introduction for this edition both clarifies Smith's analyses and illuminates his overall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes, "Smith's mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as they were in the late eighteenth century--jobs, wages, politics, government, trade, education, business, and ethics."

From the Back Cover:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0192817965
• ISBN 13: 9780192817969
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 619
• Editor: Sunderland Kathryn