The Essential Adam Smith

Por James Otteson

Adam Smith is widely hailed as the founding father of the discipline now known as economics, and he is widely credited as the founding father of what is now known as capitalism. Smith’s 1776 book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is often cited as the beginning of both economics and capitalism, and its influence in the 242 years since its publication ranks it among the most important works of the last millennium.