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Wealth of Nations

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Wealth of Nations
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Adam Smith
Introduction by Mark G. Spencer
Series edited by Tom Griffith
Abridged by Mark G. Spencer
SeriesWordsworth Classics of World Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:1008
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreEconomic theory and philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9781840226881
ClassificationsDewey:330.153
Audience
General
Edition UK ed.

Publishing Details

Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication Date 9 July 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. 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 book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. But it is much more than that. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, Smith mixed plain common sense with large measures of history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and much else. Few texts remind us so clearly that the Enlightenment was very much a lived experience, a concern with improving the human condition in practical ways for real people. A masterpiece by any measure, Wealth of Nations remains a classic of world literature to be usefully enjoyed by readers today.