Adam Smith’s Acknowledgments: Neo-Plagiarism and the Wealth of Nations
It is now generally accepted by historians of economic thought that in the nineteenth century Adam Smith’s work was much overpraised for its
It is now generally accepted by historians of economic thought that in the nineteenth century Adam Smith’s work was much overpraised for its
It is not actually possible to describe what a system of privately produced law and order would be like in modem society because one cannot describ
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It is impossible at the present time to present a systematic, coherent description of the ancient Irish law of property.
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In his monumental work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith captured the spirit of the new industri
The period which encompasses, roughly, the years from 1836 to 1870, was the critical one for political economy as conceived by Adam Smith.