Defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them. This work enables us to see more deeply into our history, and provides the new theme that connects thinkers as different as Adam Smith and Karl Marx: the desire to understand how a capitalist society works.

Presents the hazards of individual and social complacency about economic inequality. This title challenges why we worship work and productivity when so many of the goods we produce are superfluous, and why we grudge spending on public works while ignoring extravagance in the private sector.

Teach yourself hoe to use XEDIT, the CMS text editor, to: create and edit files; control complex search and change operations; tailor XEDIT displays and PF key functions to suit your tastes; write and use XEDIT macros; and more.

This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context.

Records of prices span history, from tables of medieval grain prices to the overabundance of modern statistics. In The Great Wave, David Hackett Fischer marshals this data to outline a history of prices that covers Western history.