The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · first published 1776
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Philip Auerswald on EconTalk (2026-06-22): mention
“…Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, B.IV…”
Philip Auerswald on EconTalk (2026-06-22): recommend
“…Wealth of Nations, Book Four. I mean, I almost wanted to read it again…”
Ross Levine on EconTalk (2026-04-20): mention
“…the publication of The Wealth of Nations.…”
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William Easterly on EconTalk (2025-12-08): mention
“…very clearly made in one part of the Wealth of Nations.…”
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Michael Munger on EconTalk (2025-07-07): mention
“…And that's why his book is addressed to the philosophy of mercantilism…”
Michael Munger on EconTalk (2025-07-07): mention
“…it's the title of just the third chapter of Book I of Wealth of Nations…”
Doug Irwin on EconTalk (2025-05-05): mention
“…Actually, Adam Smith has a great passage in The Wealth of Nations on that.…”
Doug Irwin on EconTalk (2025-05-05): recommend
“…Every time I pull the book down from my shelf, The Wealth of Nations, I learn something again.…”
Stephen West on The Tim Ferriss Show (2025-04-26): mention
“…Scottish Enlightenment, wrote The Wealth of Nations. It’s like a cornerstone of modern capitalist thought.…”
Jennifer Burns on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-01-20): mention
“…concerned with, as Smith puts it, the wealth of nations…”
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Noah Smith on EconTalk (2024-01-15): mention
“…And, really that starts with The Wealth of Nations, but it is a consistent strain.…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2023-11-27): mention
“…at great length in the Wealth of Nations, and also in some of his other works…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2023-11-27): recommend
“…Wealth of Nations, most of all. And I don't think you have to read all of it.…”
Ian Morris on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2022-07-22): mention
“…Adam Smith, the moral philosopher, who also wrote The Wealth of Nations.…”
John List on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-01-28): recommend
“…And then, after you take several econ classes, then go to The Wealth of Nations.…”
Branko Milanovic on EconTalk (2020-12-07): mention
“…The Wealth of Nations says--you argue and I think it's a very reasonable position--really deals with our relationship with the wider world…”
Branko Milanovic on EconTalk (2020-12-07): mention
“…the entire work of all the Wealth of Nations, and actually as you, of course, highlighted, The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2020-10-19): mention
“…The Wealth of Nations. I don't know if I would've read that by the time we go to print.…”
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Agnes Callard on EconTalk (2020-06-22): mention
“…the kind of very positive picture in like Wealth of Nations where it's like, 'Oh, we just get together…”
Daniel Klein on EconTalk (2020-01-27): mention
“…it's not that the Wealth of Nations offers a book of virtues…”
Daniel Klein on EconTalk (2020-01-27): mention
“…especially more completely than in the Wealth of Nations and into the last part of his life thereafter…”
Andrew McAfee on EconTalk (2019-10-14): mention
“…[An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 10, by Adam Smith.]…”
Andrew McAfee on EconTalk (2019-10-14): mention
“…[An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 2, by Adam Smith.]…”
Mariana Mazzucato on EconTalk (2018-12-24): mention
“…increase productivity, growth, and hence the Wealth of Nations.…”
Brandon Stanton on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-27): mention
“…whether the book was The Little Prince, or it was something like, The Wealth of Nations…”
Peter Boettke on EconTalk (2018-05-14): mention
“…But then you look at the 5th Book of the Wealth of Nations…”
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Elizabeth Anderson on EconTalk (2018-02-26): mention
“…even though historians conventionally date the beginning of the Industrial Revolution a little bit before Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations in 1776…”
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…the very colorful reference to the Wealth of Nations…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…A lot of those come from the Wealth of Nations…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…putting it all together in one package, in the Wealth of Nations…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…the story that Smith tells in Book III of the Wealth of Nations…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…is the most important one in the whole Wealth of Nations…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…this is in both The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk (2017-11-06): mention
“…the way the Wealth of Nations changed the world in a way that, say, Hume's History of England didn't…”
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Philip Auerswald on EconTalk (2017-09-25): mention
“…Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations in a coffee house.…”
Jill Lepore on Conversations with Tyler (2017-06-14): mention
“…Here would be an occasion where we could allude to the Wealth of Nations now.…”
Otteson on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…So the full title of that book, which bears repeating, is An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.…”
VSmith on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…For example, Adam Smith says in the Wealth of Nations that every person should be perfectly free…”
VSmith on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…that's the system which Adam Smith is talking about in the Wealth of Nations…”
Otteson on EconTalk (2015-04-06): mention
“…is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which came out in 1776.…”
David Zetland on EconTalk (2015-03-02): mention
“…in The Wealth of Nations, he talked about the diamond-water paradox…”
James Otteson on EconTalk (2014-12-08): mention
“…right at the beginning of the Wealth of Nations was that human beings are pretty much the same…”
Vernon Smith on EconTalk (2014-11-17): mention
“…it turned Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations on its head…”
Vernon Smith on EconTalk (2014-11-17): mention
“…In Wealth of Nations, what is the first axiom?…”
Munger on EconTalk (2014-10-13): mention
“…But it's much less than me worrying about my own little finger in the Wealth of Nations.…”
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Munger on EconTalk (2014-10-13): mention
“…But the Wealth of Nations, as you point out, is more often quoted and read.…”
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Yuval Levin on EconTalk (2014-05-26): mention
“…if Burke had read The Wealth of Nations, he would understand that what's going on here…”
Anthony Gill on EconTalk (2014-01-06): mention
“…if you look at the full volume of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, in Book 5 he actually has a fairly long discussion…”
John Ralston Saul on EconTalk (2013-11-04): mention
“…How many of you have actually read Wealth of Nations all the way through?…”
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Barry Weingast on EconTalk (2013-08-12): mention
“…one of the exciting things I find in reading Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, his Book III…”
Barry Weingast on EconTalk (2013-08-12): mention
“…Adam Smith opens the Wealth of Nations with the idea of division of labor…”
William Bernstein on EconTalk (2013-05-06): mention
“…this explanation is the paragraph before the most famous one in the book about the baker and the butcher…”
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Yanis Varoufakis on EconTalk (2013-02-25): critique
“…we economists always make the mistake of reading The Wealth of Nations without The Theory of Moral Sentiments…”
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Peter Boettke on EconTalk (2013-01-28): mention
“…Smith's title of his book was called An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations…”
Peter Boettke on EconTalk (2013-01-28): mention
“…Adam Smith in the fifth book of the Wealth of Nations refers to the juggling trick…”
Daron Acemoglu on EconTalk (2012-03-19): mention
“…the same one that Adam Smith pulls: The Wealth of Nations, why some countries are poor, why some countries are rich.…”