A study on the nature and causes of the wealth of peoples. Smith A.

The real volume represents the second edition of the main work of the “father” of the classical political economy of Adam Smith - “A study on the nature and causes of the wealth of peoples” (1776). The first edition, published in the series of “Anthology of Economic Thought” in 2007, was met with approval by the broad circles of our readers and the expert community. In the continuation of this tradition, in this publication A. Smith, one of the main works of the early period (until 1758), is published for the first time, in which the method of studying socio-economic processes is born and is reeded, which subsequently brought worldwide fame. < /p>

During the life of A. Smith, the book of several publications and was translated into other European languages. In full translation into Russian, the “wealth of peoples” was last published forty -five years ago. This translation was taken as a basis, but in a number of places it was specified and corrected. For the first time, the publication of A. Smith is equipped with a nominal index, distinguished with the most authoritative in the West by the Scottish publication of 1976

for scientists, historians of economic thought, graduate students, students of economic universities, as well as those who are interested in economic science and history.