The Invisible Hand: Adam Smith (Penguin Great Ideas) - Softcover

Smith, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141036818 ISBN 13: 9780141036816

Verlag: Penguin, 2008

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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’.

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Biografía del autor:

Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) was born in Glasgow and after being educated in Glasgow and Oxford, he held a number of academic posts before becoming tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch. This post took him to France where he began writing his political treatise, The Wealth of Nations.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141036818
• ISBN 13: 9780141036816
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144