內容簡介
‘It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest’
With this landmark treatise on political economy, Adam Smith paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that a truly free market – fired by competition yet guided as if by an ‘invisible hand’ to ensure justice and equality – was the engine of a fair and productive society. Books I–III of the Wealth of Nationsexamine the ‘division of labour’ as the key to economic growth, by ensuring the interdependence of individuals within society. They also cover the origins of money, the importance of wages, profit, rent and stocks. Smith’s work laid the foundations of economic theory in general and ‘classical’ economics in particular, but the real sophistication of his analysis derives from the fact that it also encompasses a combination of ethics, philosophy and history to create a vast panorama of society.
This edition contains an analytical introduction offering an in-depth discussion of Smith as an economist and social scientist, as well as a preface, further reading and explanatory notes.
《國富論》主導瞭人類政治經濟的演進方嚮,即使是現今龐大復雜的社會,其運作方式仍然依循《國富論》的模型原則。書中闡述瞭財富來源和經濟發展的原理,並且說明財富在社會各階層自然分配的秩序。他不僅強調市場機製的無形力量,更凸顯齣經濟體係存在著錶麵現象與內部實質聯係的雙重性。
作者簡介
Adam Smith (1723-90) taught both logic and moral philosophy at Glasgow University. His Wealth of Nations revolutionised the economic theories of the time. Andrew Skinner teaches at the Adam Smith Institute and is an expert on the author's work.
亞當·斯密(AdamSmith),18世紀英國著名的經濟學傢和倫理學傢。1723年6月5日齣生於蘇格蘭法夫郡;1737年進入格拉斯哥大學學習哲學;1740年被選人牛津大學深造;1748年任愛丁堡大學講師;1751年任格拉斯哥大學教授;1763年任英國財政大臣養子的伴遊導師;1778年任愛丁堡關稅局長;1787年受聘為格拉斯哥大學校長;1790年7月17日辭世,享年67歲。
斯密一生奉獻瞭兩部傳世經典:《道德情操論》(1759年)和《國富淪》(1776年)。前者為倫理學著作,它的齣版使斯密享譽學術界;後者為經濟學著作,它的齣版標誌著經濟學作為一門獨立學科的誕生,也成就瞭亞當·斯密作為“經濟學之父”的不朽名聲。
精彩書評
"Adam Smith's enormous authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we discover in Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to the bottom of things."
--Robert L. Heilbroner
前言/序言
The Wealth of Nations: Books 1-3 國富論 [平裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書