An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition

by Adam Smith

Book Overview

While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, the Wealth of Nations actually shows that Adam Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspicion, and tempered his celebration of a self-regulating market with a darker vision of the dehumanizing potential of a profit-oriented society. Smith did not write an economics textbook, but rather a panoramic narrative about the struggle for individual liberty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192835467
• ISBN13: 9780192835468
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.7" x 5.1"