This edition includes 10 illustrations. Any significant work of economic theory from the 19th century to the present is the heir of Adam Smith’s eloquent and eminently readable The Wealth of Nations. In it, the Scottish economist and philosopher lays out his template for a proper and just political economy, the interdisciplinary field where government and the creation of wealth merge. Smith was undoubtedly a man of the late 18th century Enlightenment period, and his great work, put into practice by both the English and American governments during their great industrial booms, gave us the wealthy and influential modern economies many of us enjoy today.