The Afterlife Of Adam Smith

Mark Twain once quipped that a classic is a book that no one reads. This definition fits to a tee Adam Smith's timeless work, The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776 on the eve of the American Revolution. For more than two centuries, partisans and pundits across the political spectrum have selectively quoted (or purported to quote) Smith's masterpiece of economic theory in support of legislative agendas and public policy.