An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations : a selected edition
By: Adam Smith ; edited with an introductin by Kathryn Sutherland.
Contributors: Sutherland, Kathryn.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 618
Subjects: Economics
Other titles: Wealth of nations
Description: 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 and general prosperity in history. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-602) and index.