The Wealth of Nations Review ''(Narrator) Edwards enunciates with unusual clarity, which helps with a book published in 1776.'' --Talking Book Review''Adam Smith's enormous authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we discover in Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to the bottom of things.'' --Robert L. Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers''The Wealth of Nations is no defender of 'greed is good' economics; the author's humanity and benevolence tint every page.'' --Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute''Simply the best book on political economy ever written. It is a genuine 'breakthrough' book whose magisterial scope and synthesis have not been surpassed.'' --Dr. Razeen Sally, senior lecturer, London School of Economics, and codirector of the European Center for Political Economy 				    	 					 About the Author Adam Smith (1723-1790) was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. He entered the University of Glasgow at age fourteen and later attended Balliol College at Oxford. After lecturing for a period, he held several teaching positions at the University of Glasgow. His greatest achievement was writing The Wealth of Nations, a five-book series that sought to reveal the true causes of prosperity and which established him as the father of contemporary economic thought.