Adam Smith founds economics with The Wealth of Nations legendary

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• Debt: The First 5,000 Years whole source · open book

  It was by telling it, in the significant year of 1776, that Adam Smith, professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, effectively brought the discipline of economics into being.

  chapter: 2: The Myth of Barter

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• The Ascent of Money whole source · open book

  In the century after he published The Wealth of Nations (1776), there was an explosion of financial innovation

  chapter: 1: Dreams of Avarice

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