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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.

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Intro · Alan B. Krueger

Notes · moderate, in the back

Keeping the cast straight ·

Intro · Andrew Skinner

Notes · heavy, in the back

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Intro · Campbell & Skinner

Notes · heavy, on the page

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ISBN
9780553585971
9780140432084
9780865970083
Publisher
Bantam Classics
Penguin Classics
Liberty Fund
Public domain (1776)
Published
2003
1999
1982
1776
Pages
1,264
544
Trim
Weight
Cover of The Wealth of Nations, translated by Bantam Classics

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Bantam Classics · 2003

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