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The Wealth of Nations - An Inquiry in to the Nature and Causes by Adam Smith. An Inquiry in to the Nature and Factors behind the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is also today a simple work in classical economics. By reflecting after the economics at the start of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches after such broad issues as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets. The Wealth of Nations was published 9 March 1776, during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution. It influenced lots of authors and economists, as well as governments and organizations. For example, Alexander Hamilton was influenced in part from the Wealth of Nations to create his Report on Manufactures, where he argued against a lot of Smith's policies. Interestingly, Hamilton based a lot of this report on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and it was, in part, Colbert's ideas that Smith responded to with The Wealth of Nations. Many other authors were influenced by the book and used it as a starting point in their own work, including Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus and, later, Ludwig von Mises. The Russian national poet Aleksandr Pushkin identifies The Wealth of Nations in his 1833 verse-novel Eugene Onegin.
