Business & Economics, Economics

The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Series)

Name: The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Series)
Author: Adam Smith
ISBN: 9780679424734

by Adam Smith, Edwin Cannan

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Synopsis

No book has done more to instruct, enlighten, and inform conservatives about economics than Adam Smith's undisputed classic.

About the Author, Adam Smith

Adam Smith was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1723. He entered the University of Glasgow at age fourteen, and later attended Balliol College at Oxford. After lecturing for a period, he held several teaching positions at Glasgow University. His greatest achievement was writing The Wealth of Nations (1776), a five-book series that sought to expose the true causes of prosperity, and installed him as the father of contemporary economic thought. He died in Edinburgh on July 19, 1790.