On March 9, 1776, four months before the American colonies broke with Britain over the issue of taxation, a little-known Scottish thinker published a long, dense book with an unpromising title: “An ...
Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (TWON), published on March 9, 1776, shares the year of its birth with the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Both documents ...