A study on the nature and causes of the wealth of peoples. Book 1-3. Smith A.

“A study on the nature and causes of the wealth of peoples” is a work that brought worldwide fame to the Scottish scientist Adam Smith (1723–1790) and laid the foundations of classical political economy.

At the turn of the XVIII - XIX centuries, this work aroused enormous interest in the new economic science that studies both the role of the state and the mechanisms of the free market involved in the self -regulation of society and determining its material well -being.

This publication includes the first three books from the six components of the full text of the study.