A great empire has been established for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers who should be obliged to buy from the shops of our different producers, all the goods with which these could supply them.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Title: Adam Smith
Author: Smith, Adam
Works
Wealth of Nations
The first complete system of political economy by the articulator of laissez-faire capitalism. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. X.
Writings About Smith, Adam
"Adam Smith"
Section by W. R. Sorley with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.