Its full title is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". Smith wrote the book to describe the industrialized capitalist system that was upending the mercantilist system.

I found it in abundance in the latest book by interdisciplinary scholar Riane Eisler. The Real Wealth of Nations tackles the dismal science of economics and proves conclusively that it deserves that ...

And from at least the time of Adam Smith's 1776 "Wealth of Nations" to 1998's Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs, and Steel," people have speculated why some areas of the globe ...

The Changing Wealth of Nations – a follow-up publication to the 2006 book, Where is the Wealth of Nations? – extends the principles of wealth accounting to include dimensions that go beyond the ...

WHEN CHINA entered the Korean war in 1950, America was keen to take the measure of its new adversary. The government asked ...

The wealth and poverty of nations has been a preoccupation of economists since Adam Smith founded the discipline 250 years ...

Building Coastal Resilience with Mangroves: The Contribution of Natural Flood Defenses to the Changing Wealth of Nations Natural coastal protection services were included for the first time in the ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and ... thereby providing moral cover for their next ...

Ever since Adam Smith wrote "The Wealth Of Nations" almost 250 years ago, economists have puzzled over why some countries grow rich while others stay poor. Today, three economists won the Nobel Prize ...

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The 43rd Sharjah International Book Fair, with over 2,500 exhibitors from 112 countries, highlights global cultural exchange.

We have laws to ensure children are born into a safe, sustainable, and unpolluted environment. These laws are also meant to ...