from automatthias

I just wanted to know what neoliberalism was, and ended up picking up this audiobook. In 1776, the economy was already quite complex, it turns out. I also enjoyed the description of the first types of money in the times of the Roman Empire. For example, copper rods. They had certain properties: w...

from JVioland

One of the most influential books ever. I wish more neo-cons and ultra capitalist would read it. Smith espouses some government involvement in regulating business enterprises. No! Really! Why, that sounds like Marxism! Bull. He surveyed the economies of the world, surveyed assembly of products, r...

from MarcusBastos

History and Economy This is a review of the audiobook. Adam Smith's work is a reflection about the history and the economy of the europeans states in the XVIII century. The author laid his principles on economic analysis throughout an exposition of historical facts carefully chosen in order to d...

from antiquary

As I think I noted elsewhere, i was struck by the fact that Smith seemed more physiocratic rather than free-enterprise; his real opponent was what we would now call "crony capitalism" --businessmen manipulating government for their own profit.

from gbsallery

Vast, rambling, dated, and yet compelling. As a founding tome of the study of economics, many of the ideas in this book have become familiar through diffusion into the discourse of everyday life. However, to see them set out in their historical context (admittedly, occasionally too much historica...