A note on the first edition(s) of the wealth of nationsdoi:10.1007/BF01718662H. BaudetKluwer Academic PublishersDe Economist
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. 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 o...
ItissymbolicthatAdamSmith'smasterpieceofeconomicanalysis,TheWealthofNations,wasfirstpublishedin1776,thesameyearasthe"DeclarationofIndependence."Inhisbook,Smithferventlyextolledthesimpleyetenlightenednotionthatindividualsarefullycapableofsettingandregulatingpricesfortheirowngoodsandservices.Hearguedpassionatelyinfavoroffree...
First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith's contemporaries and became an immediate bestseller. That edition sold out quickly and others followed. Today, Smith's Wealth of Nations rightfully claims a place in the Western intellectual canon. It is the first...
Published in 1776, in the same year as the Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smith’s celebrated defense of free market economies was written with such expressive power and clarity that the first edition sol...
If you're wondering which Wealth of Nations to purchase, get the Bantam paperback. This is Smith's complete and unabridged final version of the Wealth of Nations. It provides footnotes on Smith's wording, the historical context, and the differences between Smith's 5th edition and previous edi...
SMITH, A.: Wealth of Nations (The) (Abridged) In 1802–06 the first (abridged) edition of The Wealth of Nations was published in Russian. It was commissioned by the then Deputy Minister of Finance (later, in 1810–23, the Minister) Dmitry Guriev (the translator was one of ... A Smi...
"The Wealth of Nations" is a treasured classic of political economy. First published in March of 1776, Adam Smith wrote the book to influence a special audience - the British Parliament - and its arguments in the early spring of that year pressed for peace and cooperation with Britain's col...
as being really long; the original edition totaled over nine hundred pages in two volumes. And as P. J. O’Rourke points out, to understandThe Wealth of Nationsyou also need to read Smith’s first doorstopper,The Theory of Moral Sentiments. But now you don’t have to read either one....
Europa Universalis IV - Wealth of Nations Name Nickname Windows Downloadable edition Alternate Nickname Release Date 2014-00-00 Release Publisher Paradox Interactive AB (I) Platform Windows Release Developer Paradox Interactive AB (I) Media Downloadable Content ...