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To: greenspirit who wrote (45983)7/18/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
I've probably read a few dozen economic related books and "The Wealth of Nations" is one of the most difficult to comprehend of them all.

What were the other ones? The Wealth of Nations is at least accessible to any thinking person willing to read slowly and digest. Most modern writing on economics is comprehensible only to mathematicians.

Still, I've always suspected that only a small fraction of those who cite The Wealth of Nations have actually read it. The same can be said of many other writings on the same subject.



To: greenspirit who wrote (45983)7/18/1999 8:02:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Respond to of 108807
 
Have you read the book?

Yes. Read it in college, realized it was potent but didn't understand it all, read it 20 years later, found it superb. An extraordinary acomplishment for its time, and still amazingly relevant.

Or course, I prefer classical English writing (and poetry) to much of the modern stuff.


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