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How relevant is Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations today?

Is this something still taught in universities? Are his principles still relevant today? I will admit that I have never read it but I’d like to.
gpt
>How relevant is Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations today?

It's not.

>Is this something still taught in universities?

Probably not, unless he's mentioned in an History of Economic Thought class.

>Are his principles still relevant today?

He describes some basic phenomena, and in some things he was closer to being right than being wrong, but in other ways he was wrong. Put it this way, you're not missing out if you never read his book.

The audiobook is on youtube if you don't feel like reading it, but I'd limit it to idle recreation rather than rigorous examination.

There's really not much you can learn from reading people who died a couple hundred years ago. They didn't have the tools, quantity of data, or quality of data that we have today. While in some ways that makes the genuine breakthroughs even more impressive, it means in many ways they were just guessing.