An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. With a life of the author; complete in one volume.-Fast Shipping

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Title: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. With a life of the author; complete in one volume.

Author: F.R.S. Adam Smith L.L.D.

Publisher: Thomas Nelson, Paternoster Row, London

Published: 1850

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Number of Pages: 404

Catalogs: Economics, Social Science, Philosophy

: Original blind-embossed dark blue cloth binding with gilt decoration and text on spine. Spine faded and slightly torn at edges, tips are exposed, boards have minor scuffing. Yellow pastedowns split at hinges exposing mesh, but text-block is solid. Pages are almost entirely clean, with just a few small pencil marks. Some pages are uncut. Ownership information and two other penciled notations on pastedown. This is a rare single-volume print of Wealth of Nations from the mid-nineteenth century. Title continues: “a view of the doctrine of Smith, compared with that of the French economists; with a method of facilitating the study of his works; from the French of M. Garnier.” The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, was one of the first accounts of what builds a nation’s wealth, is a fundamental work in classical economics, introducing concepts such as the division of labor, productivity, and free markets. The book was a product of the Scottish Enlightenment and its ideas formed by the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Hardcover, good condition. 404 pages plus index, octavo.