The Wealth of Nations (1776)


I wanna be rich...

What is it that drives the World? Capitalism.  What is it that makes the poor into the Rich? Capitalism.  What makes the United States of America the greatest nation upon God's green Earth? Capitalism.  And how do we know all this...why the Wealth of Nations...of course!

Its full title is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.  Adam Smith basically lined out the economic miracle of what was to become the United States in a singular work.  It explains the "how" and the "why" of free economic systems, controlled by free markets, and thoroughly discredits later "socialist" or communist systems that by their very nature snuff out the freedom to acquire unfettered wealth.  If you want to understand money, if you want to understand markets, if you want to understand economics...you must read this book...before it's..."Berned".

The first edition of The Wealth of Nations in Two Volumes: