1st Edition

Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 3 Edited by William Playfair

Edited By William Playfair Copyright 1996
598 Pages
by Routledge

598 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1776, The Wealth of Nations is one of the great works of economic thought and a touchstone that has influenced generations of economists across the intervening centuries. The 1805 Playfair edition that is presented in this volume represents the first and most important early critical edition. Praised by Francis Ysidro Edgeworth for its 'acute criticism', the Playfair... Read more

VOLUME Ill: BOOK IV Chapter IX Of Systems of Political Economy BOOK V Chapter I-Ill Of the Expenses of the Sovereign or Commonwealth, Index

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Edited by William Playfair, Introduction by William Rees-Mogg