1770s books (Book Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 40. Chapters: 1770 books, 1770s novels, 1771 books, 1772 books, 1773 books, 1774 books, 1775 books, 1776 books, 1777 books, 1778 books, 1779 books, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Wealth of Nations, Lessons for Children, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, The White Bull, Kaitai Shinsho, Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, Ceci n'est pas un conte, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated, Confessions, 1772 in literature, 1773 in literature, Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit, 1770 in literature, 1774 in literature, 1771 in literature, 1779 in literature, The Newgate Calendar, 1775 in literature, 1776 in literature, 1778 in literature, Nocturnal Revels, 1777 in literature, The Birchen Bouquet, Thoughts on Government, Manual of Medical Diagnostics and Healthcare, Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville, Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs, Oryctographia Carniolica. Excerpt: An Inquiry 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 economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, it is a reflection on economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and argues that free market economies are more productive and beneficial to their societies. The book is considered to be the foundation of modern economic theory. The Wealth of Nations was first published on March 9, 1776, during the British Agricultural Revolution. It influenced not only authors and economists, but governments and organizations. For example, Alexander Hamilton was influenced in part by The Wealth of Nations to write his Report on Manufactures, in which he argued against many of Smith's policies. Interestingly, Hamilton based much of this report on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and it was, in part, to 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, Karl Marx and Ludwig von Mises. The Russian national poet Aleksandr Pushkin refers to The Wealth of Nations in his 1833 verse-novel Eugene Onegin. Irrespective of historical influence, however, The Wealth of Nations represented a clear leap forward in the field of economics, similar to Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica for physics, Antoine Lavoisier's Traité Élémentaire de Chimie for chemistry, or Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species for biology. Five editions of The Wealth of Nations were published during Smith's lifetime: in 1776, 1778, 1784, 1786, and 1789. Numerous editions appeared after Smith's death in 1790. To better understand the evolution of the work under Smith's hand, a team led by Edwin Cannan collated the first five editions. The differences were published along with an edited s