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Adam Smith is to economics as Newton is to physics, or Copernicus to astronomy. He is that important. The only drawback is that the English is over two centuries old and a bit stuffy at times, but Smith makes it fairly easy to digest and even manages a little humor. As economic works go, this one is the most entertaining (the 17th century tulip bubble is a wonderful lesson in .com economics!) in that he uses real historical examples, not charts and graphs of moving averages. I suspect Smith would use moving average charts as bathmats because they do not address the basic fundamentals necessary to monetary understanding. To Smith, they would be considered a waste of time because he would find little they have to do with economics. That is, unless one is interested in what happened to one's money yesterday. My initial reading of, "On The Wealth Of Nations" was over thirty years ago and that reading has profited me over the years. If one understands essential fundamentals, one can fairly easily see large trends with accuracy. The ability to accurately predict trends is the key to enhancing and protecting one's personal wealth. This is not a crystal ball, this is simply the work our economic system was based upon. Buy the book, read the book . . .Read full review
The physical book is good, nice size print, and well constructed. The price was quite a bit cheaper than Am@z0n. Remember that the contents of the book is not based off of Smith’s lectures. “Wealth of Nations” has been referred to as the largest collection of plagiarism in history (Murray Rothbard).
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Book is in good shape, great quality and overall satisified. I have read the summary and what a friend told me about it, but haven’t read it. More than happy to do so soon.
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Your mom should have given you a Bible and your Dad should have given you a copy of Wealth of Nations. Most of the modern ills in our economy were warned against in this book back in 1776. Smith was fighting a capricious King who was demonstrating that things the FED and the government do now just aren't prudent. Such as moving the manufacturing base overseas and wild subsidies. It isn't the easiest read and it is very long. But it foretold a great many things. A must have for conservative or Constitutional thought.
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Great book. Adam Smith is truly one of the great Enlightenment thinkers.
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