Timeless classics: the wealth of nations

While the American Revolution was underway, Adam Smith published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, best known as The Wealth of Nations, and he instantly revolutionized economics. His treatise is the most famous economic work in history, and argued that free market economics are the most productive for societies. Laissez-faire economics owe its philosophical underpinnings to Smiths work, and Smith remains one of the most widely referenced and read economists in classrooms across the world today. This edition of Adam Smiths An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations includes a table of contents and is illustrated.