The Wealth of Nations (Everyman's Library)

About this book

Published in 1776 in the same year as the Declaration of Independence The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smiths celebrated defense of free market economies was written with such expressive power and clarity that the first edition sold out in six months. While its most remarkable and enduring innovation was to see the whole of economic life as a unified system it is notable also as one of the Enlightenments most eloquent testaments to the sanctity of the individual in his relation to the state.