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by: Adam Smith  List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $9.99 You Save: $5.01 (33%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.153 Format: Kindle Book Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 672 Publication Date: March 03, 2007 Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: March 03, 2007 Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Smith offers his considered response to the French Physiocrats and assesses the nature of the mercantile system. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Don't be misled by the invisible handThis book is so widely cited and interpreted contrary to the author's original thought, that every economist should read it completely to avoid being misled by such incorrect interpretations. First, let us take the "invisible hand" metaphor. When I have studied economy in the University, I was taught that almost the entire book is devoted to the "invisible hand" which means "self-corrective markets", "liberalism", "Laissez-faire" and "state non-intervention". After reading this book, ... Read More Rating:  - Prosperity or poverty. Smith vs MarxAdam Smith like Marx sees changes in the economic system as a logical, inevitable sequence of events. For example the power of the landed aristocracy declined as a consequence of the increasing importance of the towns. Good government was a result of this decline as people that had worked on the estates in conditions close to slavery moved to cities where they had considerable freedom. The difference between Marx and Smith is that Smith considered all of these changes leading to steady improvements ... Read More Rating: - A Winner!This book is a classic of economic thought! 
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