SMITH, Adam - SARTORIUS, Georg.

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Handbok för statshushallningen efter Adam Smiths grundsattser. First translation in Swedish of Georg Sartorius's abbreviated edition of the Wealth of Nations, first published in German in 1796, aimed as a university textbook."Sartorius' indisputable contribution to economic science consists in the fact that he was one of the first German professors to grasp the significance of Adam Smith's system. At a time when German academic and political life was still dominated by the cameralist tradition, he enthusiastically undertook the propagation of the Smithian doctrine, using the lecture hall as his principal forum. His selections from the Wealth of Nations, published as early as 1796 'for use in academic lectures', revealed a capacity to present the principles and implications of laissez faire in a manner suited to the tastes and needs of German students" (ESS). This abridged version, intended as a textbook, marked a radical reduction of the work - at around 40,000 words, it is a tenth the size of the original.The Swedish translation, by the jurist Johan Holmbergsson (1764-1840), was important in introducing Smith's ideas to Sweden. Prior to this publication, only excepts of Smith's work had been available in Swedish, in the journal Läsning i blandade ämnen (1799). The section on income tax is omitted, possibly for political reasons since it suggested that there were some forms of taxation that should be applied to all. The preface is an abbreviated and revised version of Sartor

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