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The Wealth of Nations
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1776
- Pages
- Pages 1260
Ten men in a small workshop, none of whom could make a single pin start to finish, divide the labor into eighteen distinct operations and turn out upward of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Adam Smith opens his inquiry into the wealth of nations with this workshop because it holds, in miniature, the whole of what follows: that plenty is not a king's hoarded gold but the ordinary, cooperative multiplication of human effort, broken into pieces and rejoined.
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