All my life I’ve been bombarded with one economist versus another. Each time Adam Smith always showed up. So after hearing snippets of his book and his ideas over and over and over again I thought “Ah, I know Adam Smith.”
Well I might’ve been a tad premature in thinking that I knew Adam Smith. As you will to when you read this book, “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.”
I figured that it was finally time to read Adam Smith for myself instead of taking snippets out of context.
At first I began to think that I had made a big mistake. If you read the Constitution of the United States that you would notice that you are always told the impressive parts as separate statements and they leave out all the boring details and sometimes important minutia. Well it looks like they did the same thing the poor Adam.
On the surface as you start reading this book you start to wonder what makes Adam Smith so important, as it seems so primitive. Reading on you realize that he came from an era that was way before the information age. His samples seem primitive and simple. He repeats and repeats and repeats himself. You start to wonder if this is the same Adam Smith that you studied in school.
You will want to hang in there though as soon you will realize that Adam Smith had to start with the fundamentals of history and primitive economics. After pages of history he will finally get to his time.
Yes this is a book is ancient and the examples are not usually relevant to today. However just as you decide that you made a horrible mistake in reading “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,” small jewels of insight into not only economics, and history but life itself reveals itself in his everyday descriptions and observations.
I had to buy a book on the English poor laws as the aforementioned like everybody knew about them. Many other subjects and reference books all of a sudden appeared on my desk as I realized that with all the depth of Adam Smith this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Yes sometimes Smith can get boring and very redundant. However whatever you do do not skip any pages is just as soon as you know what is going to say he comes up with another interesting angle.
He not only covers economics from his version of a practical view, soon he covers the history of education, and many other subjects besides commerce. I found that he covers the effect of religions on people and people on religions. He covers schools and how they got started and their potentials for modifying society. He covers economics of war and other major world changing phenomena.
Just as you think he is talking about his world and his time. You pick up a newspaper and see the very same type of the events and economic arguments.
For me of all things I was able to get a new view of national debt and it changed my view from a necessary evil to an excellent opportunity.
You to will find new insights or views on the economics that you were already sure you had under your belt.
So enjoy reading Adam Smith not as a necessity but for the fun of getting new views directly from the author.
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I. S.
Interesting subject. Totally classic
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Lectura pesada
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Helcio
Nice to begginers.
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Ola O
Great book. Thanks for the effort in making this ...
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Outstanding
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