Today in 1776, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith was published in London.
Liah Greenfeld, “Nationalism’s Dividends,” American Affairs, Summer 2019:
…economic nationalism originally took the form of mercantilism, which reigned in England and then Britain throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—remaining dominant until 1776, when Adam Smith pub…
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