📚 Great Books: 'The Wealth of Nations' • Adam Smith (1723–1790) 🕞 28m

Publication date 18 January 2017 • ( NCTV17 - Public Access TV, Naperville ) 📚 Great Books: 'The Wealth of Nations' • Adam Smith (1723–1790) • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith.
One of the most influential books in the latter part of the 18th century was Adam Smiths, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."
Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, near Edinburgh in 1723. Although he did not invent economics, Smith certainly gave the world its first synoptic vision of the playing field of political economics. As Robert Heilbroner noted: After "The Wealth of Nations," men began to see the world about themselves with new eyes. They saw how the tasks they did interface with society and that society as a whole was proceeding toward a distant but visible goal.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith (1723–1790). First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first connected accounts of what builds nations' wealth and has become a fundamental work in classical economics. Reflecting upon economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Smith addresses topics such as the division of labor, productivity, and free markets.

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The Wealth of Nations was published in two volumes on 9 March 1776 (with books I–III included in the first volume and books IV and V included in the second), during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution. It influenced several authors and economists, such as Karl Marx, as well as governments and organizations, setting the terms for economic debate and discussion for the next century and a half. For example, Alexander Hamilton was influenced in part by The Wealth of Nations to write his Report on Manufactures, in which he argued against many of Smith's policies. Hamilton-based much of this report on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and it was, in part, Colbert's ideas that Smith responded to, and criticized, with The Wealth of Nations.

The Wealth of Nations was the product of seventeen years of notes and earlier studies, as well as an observation of conversation among economists of the time (like Nicholas Magens) concerning economic and societal conditions during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and it took Smith some ten years to produce.[6] The result was a treatise which sought to offer a practical application for reformed economic theory to replace the mercantilist and physiocratic economic theories that were becoming less relevant in the time of industrial progress and innovation.[7] It provided the foundation for economists, politicians, mathematicians, and thinkers of all fields to build upon. Irrespective of historical influence, The Wealth of Nations represented a clear paradigm shift in the field of economics,[8] comparable to what Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason was for philosophy.

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