A modern-English edition of Adam Smith’s 1776 classic on labor, trade, markets, specialization, and the sources of national prosperity. Few books have shaped the modern world more deeply, yet the original can be slow and forbidding for new readers. This edition makes Smith’s arguments much easier to follow while preserving their structure and scope.
The Wealth of Nations is foundational for economics, but it is also a broader work of moral and political thought about incentives, institutions, and social organization.
For readers interested in capitalism, economic history, political economy, or the origins of modern market thinking, it is indispensable.
