SMITH, Adam.

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. An attractively printed continental edition of Smith's masterpiece, "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), the first Basel edition to include the 1793 English translation of Turgot's Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses.The first Basel edition of 1793 did not include Turgot's work, which had a considerable influence on Smith. McCulloch described it as "the best work on the science published previously to The Wealth of Nations" (p. 49). The preface to its inclusion here notes that, "as they are affirmed by the Marquis de Condorcet, [Turgot's] biographer, to be the germ from which Mr. Adam Smith formed his excellent treatise on The Wealth of Nations, it is hoped the curious reader will not be displeased to find them here in an English dress".The Wealth of Nations was first published in 1776: this edition reprints the text of the fourth edition of 1786.

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