Wealth of NationsAbridged and with an Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario, Canada Adam Smith (1723 1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith's contemporaries and became an immediate bestseller. That edition sold out quickly, and