Adam Smith · Economics
Smith’s revolution in what wealth <em>is</em>: not a nation’s hoard of gold but the productive labour of its people - and the labour theory of value that idea launched.
You learned that Smith located the wealth of a nation in its productive labour and groped toward a labour theory of value. Explain that shift, and the puzzle of value it opened, in your own words.
Leads to David Ricardo.
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