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The Wealth of Nations
Overview
1776 work on economics by Adam Smith
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Hence those extravagant opinions respecting the advantages and profits of foreign commerce, and the importance of money; hence those absurd calculations that have been made regarding what is termed the balance of trade, the thermometer of public prosperity; hence those systems of regulations, and those oppressive monopolies, which are resorted to for the purpose of making one side of the balance preponderate; hence…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Though in representing the labour which is employed upon land as the only productive labour, the notions which it inculcates are, perhaps, too narrow and confined; yet in representing the wealth of nations as consisting, not in the unconsumable riches of money, but in the consumable goods annually reproduced by the labour of the society, and in representing perfect liberty as the only effectual expedient for…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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His first writings, which dealt exclusively with the money question belong to the time of the most violent controversy between the Bank of England, which had on its side the ministers and the war party, and its opponents about whom were centered the parliamentary opposition, the Whigs and the Peace party. They appeared as immediate forerunners of the famous Report of the Bullion Committee of 1810, in which Ricardo’s…
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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Philosophers who discussed The Wealth of Nations
- Max Stirner
- Adam Smith
- Murray Rothbard
- Robert Nozick
- Jeremy Bentham
- David Hume
- Alexander Rosenberg
- Louis de Bonald
Related ideas
- Edmund Burke
- Empiricism
- Edward Gibbon
- Feudalism
- Friedrich Hayek
- Free market
- Thomas Carlyle
- Philosophy
- Profit (economics)
- Immanuel Kant
- James Madison
- Karl Marx
- Adam Ferguson
- Capital (economics)
- Adam Smith
- Mediterranean Sea
- Liberalism
- Mercantilism
- American Revolution
- Metaphor
- Paul Samuelson
- Classical economics
- Usury
- Economic liberalism
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.