Wealth of NationsCollins, John
Wealth of Nations
by Collins, John · first published 2017
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…"ethical" grounds. If you look at the founder of modern economic thought (called for a time "political economy", BTW), his other book is The Theory of Moral Sentiments, an explicitly moral work. Much of Wealth of Nations concerns "ought" rather more than "is" (though Smith focuses on both). As von Clausewitz observed that war is the continuation of politics by other means, politics is the continuation of war by other…
on “Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO” ↗…library of four hundred books and £779" ($140,100 in 2008 pounds converted to dollars as of today). I seem to remember Forbes saying sometime in the beginning of the last decade that one copy of The Wealth of Nations when printed in 1776 cost about what a current personal computer did at the time.
…progress. Given its foundations in moral philosophy and the inherent self-serving dynamics of wealth -- "Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says is power" notes Smith. in one of the shortest and clearest sentences of Wealth of Nations, a book generally given to neither -- this seems a formidable challenge.
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