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The Wealth of Nations
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? What if the secret to prosperity has been hiding in plain sight for over 200 years?
In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, unveils the principles that transformed the world — and still shape how nations grow, trade, and thrive today.
Published in 1776, this monumental work explains how individual ambition, guided by the "invisible hand" of the market, leads to collective wealth and progress. Smith's revolutionary ideas on free trade, labor, capital, and competition became the intellectual foundation for capitalism and global economics.
With insight, clarity, and vision, Smith reveals how prosperity flourishes when people are free to pursue their own interests — and how greed, monopolies, and government overreach can destroy it.
The Wealth of Nations is not just a book about economics — it's a manifesto of human freedom, innovation, and balance between self-interest and social good.
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- Wealth of Nations
- Part 1 Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive Powers of Labour, and of the Order according to which its Produce is naturally distributed among the different Ranks of the People
- Part 2 Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock
- Part 3 Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations
- Part 4 Of Systems of political Economy
- Part 5 Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
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