"An excellent digest of all that is valuable in former Oeconomical writers with many valuable corrective Observations."
— Adam Smith

January 1, 1970

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Edmund Burke, remark on The Wealth of Nations as recorded by Dugald Stewart (8 April 1784), quoted in Ian Simpson Ross, The Life of Adam Smith (1995; 2nd ed. 2010), p. 376