On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World
In On The Wealth of Nations, America's most provocative satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, reads Adam Smith's revolutionary The Wealth of Nations so you don't have to. Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long: the original edition totaled over nine hundred pages in two volumes-including the blockbuster sixty-seven-page digression concerning the variations in the value of silver during the course of the last four centuries,” which, to those uninterested in the historiography of currency supply, is like reading Modern Maturity in Urdu.” Although…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8021-4342-6
- EAN: 9780802143426
- Produktnummer: 3138752
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B13.5 cm x D1.7 cm 249 g
- Gewicht: 249
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