Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 5:30 AM
"Larry W. Reed"
Quick: who is the world's first economist? Many of you will answer, correctly, Adam Smith, who is often named as such. Who is still the world's foremost economist? Surprisingly, the same name comes up. The author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, usually abbreviated simply as The Wealth of Nations, is still a shining light in his chosen science, which he practically pioneered from scratch. D
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