The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

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"If [justice] is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society, that fabric which to raise and support seems in this world if I may say so has the peculiar and darling care of Nature, must in a moment crumble into atoms."
--from "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith

Published in 1776, in the same year as the Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smith’s celebrated defense of free market economies was written with such expressive power and clarity that the first edition sold out in six months. While its most remarkable and enduring innovation was to see the whole of economic life as a unified system, it is notable also as one of the Enlightenment’s most eloquent testaments to the sanctity of the individual in his relation to the state. READ an excerpt from the introduction by Robert Reichhere: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/168734/the-wealth-of-nations/

1776 classic voted best business book ever

The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith's influential 231-year-old economic treatise, has been voted the best business book of all time.
In a poll by the Financial Times, the book published in 1776 was voted the winner by a "wide margin" ahead of Barbarians at the Gate, the 1990 account by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar of the leveraged buy-out of RJR Nabisco, the US conglomerate formed in 1985 through the merger of Nabisco Brands and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Andrew Hill, associate editor of the FT, said: "One of the measures of greatness in the broad genre of books on business, economics and finance is that it should stand the test of time. The Wealth of Nations, published more than 200 years ago but still regularly cited, clearly passes that test and is a worthy winner."
Henry Tang, the Hong Kong government's chief secretary for administration and one of the judges who selected five business books which were put to the vote of FT readers, said The Wealth of Nations had helped "lay down the foundation of free market economics".
Other judges included Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of easyJet, Scott Moeller, from Cass Business School and Lakshmi Mittal, president and CEO of steel giant ArcelorMittal.
The other choices in the poll were The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker, Good to Great by Jim Collins and The Innovator's Dilemma by Clay Christensen.