The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)
by Adam Smith
List Price:
Our Price: $4.60
You Save: $3.35 (42%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Adam SmithIntroduction: Alan B. Krueger
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03-04
ISBN: 0553585975
Number of pages: 1264
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Book Reviews of The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)
Book Review: An excellent reference, but if you want to know about Smith buy a history book
Summary: 4 Stars
There is I'm afraid, no way to get round it, this book is spectacularly dull, an entire section of the appendix is devoted to a bountiful herring catch. I can't therefore imagine that any but the most deranged right wing economists are going to sit down and read it from cover to cover. However I find it's always useful to have a copy of the original work I want to refer to even if I primarily work from other books based on it. Furthermore this edition is under half the price of most copies you'll find so if like me you think this book will spend the vast majority of it's time sitting on the shelf gathering dust it makes sense to buy this one.
If you want to know about Smith it might actually be a far better idea to just buy a book commenting on him than to get his actual work. Most of this stuff is now basic economic theory, so if you have studied economics to any degree you really won't find anything you don't already know. Smith only really makes sense in the context of his time, when he coined the phrase division of labour it was innovative, now it seems like old hat. Books like the Worldly Philosophers (I'm sure there are plenty of others out there but It's one I've read and enjoyed), not only explain Smith well, but show how his theory was expanded upon by later economists. I'd therefore recommend this particular edition of 'Wealth of Nations', but I don't think the book itself will hold much interest for anyone who isn't studying Smith in a very in depth way.
Business & Investing Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Post-Battenkill Suggested Reading
Family Guy - The Complete Collection (Stewie Head Packaging) - (Amazon.com Exclusive)Release date: 2008-10-21; DVD
Best price: $121.99
Price in other shops:
Life Everywhereby David Darling
Basic Books; Published: 2002-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
Contactby Carl Sagan
Pocket; Published: 1997-07-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.38
Price in other shops:
Cosmosby Carl Sagan
Ballantine Books; Published: 1985-10-12; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.71
Price in other shops:
Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physicsby Gary Zukav
HarperOne; Published: 2001-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.48
Price in other shops:
In Search of Schr?dinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Realityby John Gribbin
Bantam Books; Published: 1984-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.95
Price in other shops:
No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobsby Naomi Klein
Picador; Published: 2002-04-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.46
Price in other shops:
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalismby Naomi Klein
Picador; Published: 2008-06-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.69
Price in other shops:
Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Editionby Milton Friedman
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2002-11-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.96
Price in other shops:
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Moneyby John Maynard Keynes
BN Publishing; Published: 2008-07-21; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.78
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau
BN Publishing; Published: 2007-09-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.51
Price in other shops:
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)by F. A. Hayek
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2007-03-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.97
Price in other shops:
The Art of War (Shambhala classics)by Sun Tzu
Dover Publications; Published: 2002-11-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.18
Price in other shops:
The Theory of Moral Sentimentsby Adam Smith
FQ Classics; Published: 2007-12-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.60
Price in other shops:
Plato: Republicby Plato, G. M. A. Grube, C. D. C. Reeve
Hackett Publishing Company; Published: 1992-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops:
Free to Choose: A Personal Statementby Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
Harvest Books; Published: 1990-11-26; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.49
Price in other shops:
The Prince (Bantam Classics)by Niccolo Machiavelli
Bantam Classics; Published: 1984-09-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.40
Price in other shops:
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series)by John Maynard Keynes
Prometheus Books; Published: 1997-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.90
Price in other shops:
Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Editionby Milton Friedman
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2002-11-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.48
Price in other shops:
The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Penguin Classics; Published: 2002-08-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.86
Price in other shops: