# The Wealth of Nations

by [Adam Smith](https://localbooks.app/authors/adam-smith)

- Genres: [Entreprise et finance](https://localbooks.app/genres/business), [Politique](https://localbooks.app/genres/society/politics)
- Set in: [Kirkcaldy, Ecosse, Royaume-Uni](https://localbooks.app/places/gb/scotland/kirkcaldy); [Glasgow, Ecosse, Royaume-Uni](https://localbooks.app/places/gb/scotland/glasgow)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1776
- Pages: 581

## Description

Beginning with a pin factory where ten workers divided the labour and made thousands of pins a day, Smith explains how markets, prices, wages and trade make a country rich. He goes on to attack the trade monopolies and colonial policies of his day and to ask what a government should actually do.

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