A riqueza das nacións: Diferenzas entre revisións

Esta crítica do mercantilismo foi usada mais tarde por [[David Ricardo]] cando escribe a [[Teoría da Ventaxa Comparativa]].

 

 

A "[[Man Invisible]]" é un tema referenciado a cotío no libro, aínda que sea especificamente mencionado unha sóa vez. A idea que sosténse detras é que, a un nivel, a xente beneficia a comunidade o seu arredor simplemente actuando polo seu propio interese, sen unha conciencia de axuda ó servizo da comunidade. Noutras palabras, ''interese propio'' iguálase con ''interese xeral'':

Thus, while it cannot accurately be said to be the '''first''' modern work of political economy, ''The Wealth of Nations'' must still be termed the '''founding''' work of economics, as it, and no other work, is the progenitor of almost all modern economic theory. This situation may be seen as somewhat akin to the influence of ''[[The Origin of Species]]'' on the fields of [[evolution]] and [[anthropology]]. While Darwin's work was certainly not the first to lay out its theories, it remains the most important and the "original" work in those fields. Chydenius and others may have been first in the sense of strict timing, but Smith's work was the first to have a wide influence.

 

* [[Adam Smith]]

* [[Politica economica]]