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    into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish...
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  • IQ and the Wealth of Nations is a 2002 book by psychologist Richard Lynn and political scientist Tatu Vanhanen. The authors argue that differences in national...
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    part of the wealthy.[need quotation to verify] Adam Smith, in his seminal work The Wealth of Nations, described wealth as "the annual produce of the land...
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    The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which...
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    rarely used in the measurement of wealth inequality, also includes human capital. For example, the United Nations definition of inclusive wealth is a monetary...
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    The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The latter, often abbreviated as The...
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    higher relative wealth, if calculated per capita and not per adult. In nations where wealth is highly concentrated in a small percentage of people (a higher...
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    assertion. The term "sovereign wealth fund" was first used in 2005 by Andrew Rozanov in an article entitled, "Who holds the wealth of nations?" in the Central...
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  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor is a 1998 book by historian and economist David Landes (1924–2013). He attempted...
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  • Moral Sentiments when discussing the concentration of wealth. More famously, it is also used once in his Wealth of Nations, when arguing that international...
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    Class conflict (redirect from Wealth envy)
    maxim of the masters of mankind. In the third book of The Wealth of Nations, Smith explains that in the medieval period, after the fall of the Roman Empire...
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  • The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens is a 2013 book by French economist Gabriel Zucman, which popularized the concept of both the tax...
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  • on classical economics, especially the economic ideas as espoused by Adam Smith in Book One of The Wealth of Nations, and on a belief in natural law, social...
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    worthless in the future. The most significant component by far among most developed nations is commonly reported as household net wealth or worth, and...
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    The inequality of wealth (i.e. inequality in the distribution of assets) has substantially increased in the United States in recent decades. Wealth commonly...
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  • traditionally view differences in wealth between nations in terms of human capital, which is a general term for the abilities of the workforce. According to Hunt...
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  • laissez-faire capitalism emerged in the mid-18th century and was further popularized by Adam Smith's book The Wealth of Nations. The term laissez-faire likely originated...
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    Treatise on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Mercantilism in its simplest form is bullionism, yet mercantilist writers emphasize the circulation of money...
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    maintains a personal library, including a copy of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. He attempts to legitimize the Barksdale Organization and insulates himself...
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    The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which mostly consists of territories...
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    (2008). On the Wealth of Nations. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781843543893. "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith"...
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    into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, Vol. 2: An Inquiry into the Nature...
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  • transfers wealth from households or businesses to the government of a nation. Adam Smith writes in The Wealth of Nations that "…the economic incomes of private...
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    The use of the English language in current and former member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations was largely inherited from British colonization...
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    Jane Jacobs (category Members of the Order of Ontario)
    one can see from The Economy of Cities or from Cities and the Wealth of Nations, Jacobs defined the city purely along the lines of geographically dense...
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  • anything. The concept of absolute advantage is generally attributed to the Scottish economist Adam Smith in his 1776 publication The Wealth of Nations, in which...
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    Physiocracy (category Schools of economic thought)
    of 18th-century Age of Enlightenment French economists who believed that the wealth of nations derived solely from the value of "land agriculture" or...
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  • inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations", in particular as: a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator [with the twofold objectives...
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  • Redistribution of income and wealth is the transfer of income and wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others through a social...
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    Inheritance (redirect from Inherited wealth)
    perpetuating a cycle of privilege.[citation needed] Nations with the highest income and wealth inequalities often have the highest rates of homicide and disease...
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