"Who, in 1776, wrote ""The Wealth of Nations""?"
The Wealth of Nations The Wealth of Nations An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the "magnum opus" of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets. "The Wealth of Nations"
The Wealth of Nations fourth and fifth editions—a set of misprints being removed from the fourth and a different set of misprints being introduced. The first edition of the book sold out in six months. The printer William Strahan wrote on 12 April 1776 that David Hume said "The Wealth of Nations" required too much thought to be as popular as Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Strahan also wrote: "What you say of Mr. Gibbon's and Dr. Smith's book is exactly just. The former is the most popular work; but the sale of the latter, though