The Wealth of Nations

43 recorded talks in this archive name this book. The 6 that discuss it most, each linked to the moment it comes up:

• 16. The Celebrated Adam Smith

  Murray N. Rothbard · Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

  The bicentennial of his magnum opus, An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776, a veritable flood of books, essays and memorabilia poured forth about the quiet Scottish professor.

  Hear it at 0:47

• Adam Smith and Ludwig von Mises on the Moral Framework

  Walton Padelford · Austrian Scholars Conference 2012

  In addition to his great work in economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith also wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments, in which he treats the springs of man's moral conduct.

  Hear it at 1:39

• Producing Prosperity: An Inquiry Into the Operation of the Market Process

  Randall G. Holcombe · Austrian Economics Research Conference 2013

  … was how you get wealthy, physiocrats thought wealth came from the land, you look at Adam Smith's book, The Wealth of Nations, the title tells you what he's talking about, actually the full, that Wealth of Nations, that's the movie …

  Hear it at 3:44

• Support for Free Trade: The Impact of Religious Ideology

  Robert Nelson · Austrian Scholars Conference 2005

  It's not clear entirely what Smith meant sometimes, but as Waterman says in many cases, quote, Nature is nearly synonymous with the god referred to in the Wealth of Nations as the deity.

  Hear it at 11:04

• 12. The Founding Father of Modern Economics: Richard Cantillon

  Murray N. Rothbard · Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

  … of modern economics belongs then not to its usual recipient, Adam Smith, but to a gallicized Irish merchant, banker and adventurer who wrote the first treatise on economics more than four decades before the publication of The Wealth of Nations.

  Hear it at 1:00

• 17. The Spread of the Smithian Movement

  Murray N. Rothbard · Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

  Smith, however, received the letter virtually on his deathbed, and he could only send Bentham a copy of the Wealth of Nations.

  Hear it at 3:54