Wealth of Nations, Book IV

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, I have been featuring a different part of Smith’s magnum opus on my blog. Below, for example, is a compilation of my previous blog posts on Book IV of The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith calls bullshit! Adam Smith on the economics of war Some final thoughts on Book IV, Chapter 1 of The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith’s finest chapter Whose hand? Adam Smith, anti-racist Adam Smith, the Bank of Amsterdam, and the fetish of trade balances Some final thoughts on Book IV, Chapter 3 of The Wealth of Nations: of absolute advantage Adam Smith the pragmatist Adam Smith’s critique of crony capitalism Adam Smith’s paradoxes Adam Smith’s subtle critique of bilateral trade treaties in Book IV, Chapter 6 Adam Smith’s detour on seignorage Adam Smith’s scathing critique of Spanish colonialism Adam Smith’s scathing critique of European colonialism more generally Top Ten Plays in Part 3 of Chapter 7 of Book IV of The…