Economics
August 29th, 2008
Seriously, everyone should read The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. He’s on the £20 note, so he must be good, right?
After almost a year working in the finance industry in London, what I learned was that the Tube is so late so often that you can read quite a lot of books. One of the books was The Wealth of Nations, which is a very well-thought-out argument for free markets. Steve has kept arguing that free markets were A Good Thing for pretty much as long as I’ve known him, but nothing convinced me as well as Adam Smith’s extremely plausible reasoning.
Anyway, long story short: read it – despite its age, it is very good.
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