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Adam Smith es considerado el fundador de la ciencia económica. Con esta obra estableció sus cimientos y los del liberalismo económico. Se basa en la idea de que la riqueza proviene del trabajo y es susceptible de aumentar con una adecuada regulación del mercado. maneja conceptos como competencia,el Estado como mano invisible y otros que, desde entonces, forman parte de esta disciplina.
En 1776 Adam Smith escribió su obra La investigación sobre la naturaleza y causas de la riqueza de las naciones (o simplemente La riqueza de las naciones), por la cual es considerado por muchos el padre de la Economía Política. Esta obra representa el intento por diferenciar la economía política de la ciencia política, la ética y la jurisprudencia. Un elemento fundamental para esta diferenciación fue la crítica al mercantilismo, corriente heterogénea que venía desarrollando nociones económicas desde el siglo XV, más vinculada a los imperios coloniales que a la naciente revolución industrial. ( )
Este libro nos muestra la concepcion de un personaje que se embarco a analizar a la economia en una época donde existian muy pocas personas arriesgadas a realizar estos analisis. ( )
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The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
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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. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
Labor...is the only universal, as well as the only accurate measure of value, or the only standard by which we can compare the values of different commodities at all times and at all places.
The property which every man has is his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
The interest of the dealers...in any particular branch of trade or manufactures is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.
To give the monopoly of the home-market to the produce of domestic industry...is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.
To prohibit a great people...from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.
A tax which tended to drive away stock from any particular country, would so far tend to dry up every source of revenue, both to the sovereign and to the society. Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land and the wages of labor, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal.
…by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.
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If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expense of defending those provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military establishments in time of peace, and endeavour to accommodate her future views and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances.
Creador del liberalismo económico, Smith hizo una perdurable aportación al mundo que se había de desarrollar con la revolución industrial.
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