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The Wealth of Nations
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by: Adam Smith  List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com's Price: $14.35 You Save: $1.60 (10%)as of 07/29/2010 14:37 EDT Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 332 EAN: 9781420932065 ISBN: 1420932063 Label: Digireads.com Manufacturer: Digireads.com Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 576 Publication Date: January 01, 2009 Publisher: Digireads.com Studio: Digireads.com Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, "The Wealth of Nations" is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words. Smith details his argument in the following five books: Book I. Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive Power of Labour, Book II. Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock Introduction, Book III. Of the Different Progress of Opulence in Different Nations, Book IV. Of Systems of Political Economy, and Book V. Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth; which taken together form a giant leap forward in the field of economics. A product of the "Age of Enlightenment", "The Wealth of Nations" is a must read for all who wish to gain a better understanding of the principles upon which all modern capitalistic economies have been founded and the process of wealth creation that is engendered by those principles. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Timeless and RelevantThis book is surprisingly easy to understand, and Smith's insights apply to current issues of taxation, globalization, and the striving of special interests. Reading the observations of someone who was a contemporary of America's founding fathers, but not one of them, gave me a new perspective on the 1700s. Passing references to the vast, but stagnant wealth of China, as well as to colonial enterprises from South America to Asia, add historical flavor to what could have been a dry summary of economic ... Read More Rating: - Go to the source...Alfred North Whitehead famously stated that all of Western philosophy was merely a footnote to Plato. It seems to me one could say the same thing about economics in regard to Adam Smith. There were certainly economists before Adam Smith (just as there were philosophers before Plato); and there are some, I am sure, who will claim that some of the economists writing before Adam Smith were actually superior to Adam Smith in some ways (just as there are philosophers who prefer the pre-Socratics to Plato). Read More Rating: - A must-have must-read book for every capitalistThis is the essence of capitalism. All of it is still absolutely true. Read it and teach it. Rating: - Great ConditionWhen I recieved this book it was in great condition! The binding was not ripped and i could not find a single tear in the whole book. I was pleasantly surprised with how fast it came. Rating:  - Avoid this EditionBook comes riddled with typos, errors, etc. Don't save yourself a few dollars by going with a cheap(er) edition. 
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