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(Paperback)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9780140432084
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1982
UK Publication Date: 25th February 1982
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gives a comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, this book's includes the author's assessment of the mercantile system, his advocacy of the freedom of commerce and industry, and his famous prophecy that "America will be one of the foremost nations of the world".


(Paperback, 4th edition)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9780140436150
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1999
UK Publication Date: 7th October 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a comprehensive treatment of political economy. This title includes the author's assessment of the mercantile system, his advocacy of the freedom of commerce and industry, and his prophecy that 'America will be one of the foremost nations of the world'.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9780593067079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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And how much strength does a boxer take from his family, or the family figures that so many trainers and promoters become

Passionate, hard-hitting and with astonishing revelations about the world of boxing, Beautiful Brutality is written from the heart, by an author with a unique knowledge and experience of the fight game.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9780143105923
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Investigating the flip side of economic self-interest, this title advances ideas about conscience, moral judgement and virtue that have taken on the importance in business and politics.


(Paperback, UK ed.)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9781840226881
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2012
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is the first book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, it mixes plain common sense with large measures of history, philosophy, psychology and sociology.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9780141036816
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Adam Smith's landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an 'invisible hand'.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9780679783367
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Includes notes, commentary, and an introduction by Robert Reich.


(Hardback)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9781857150117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1991
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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Published in the same year as the American Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history.


(Hardback)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9780679424734
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1994
UK Publication Date: 25th January 1994
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The classic eighteenth-century treatise on the principles of political economics.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9780553585971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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In a new unabridged edition of the classic eighteenth-century treatise on the principles of political economics, first published in 1776, the author provides a detailed description and analysis of the inner workings of a market economy, presenting the fundamental principles of a capitalist system.


(Hardback)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9780872202054
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1993
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Deals with the relationship between ethics and economics in Adam Smith's thinking. This title focuses on the devices Smith uses to ground his economics in broadly ethical and social categories.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Smith

ISBN: 9780872202047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1993
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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States that no book has done more to instruct, enlighten, and inform conservatives about economics than Adam Smith's undisputed classic.