1st Edition

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

Edited By William Playfair Copyright 1996
566 Pages
by Routledge

566 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 II: BOOK II Chapter 111-V Of the Nature, Accumulation and Employment of Stock BOOK Ill Chapter I-IV Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations BOOK IV Chapter I-VIII Of Systems of Political Economy

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Edited by William Playfair, Introduction by William Rees-Mogg