J. V. Bruni and Company
1528 North Tejon Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80907
(719) 575-9880 or (800) 748-3409
J. V. Bruni and Company1528 North Tejon Street Colorado Springs, Colorado 80907 (719) 575-9880 or (800) 748-3409
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On the Wealth of Nations,
by P. J. O'Rourke. 
Chances are
that you haven’t read Adam Smith’s pioneering work, An Inquiry into
the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (“The Wealth of
Nations,” for short). Nor is it likely you’ve read Smith’s other very
important book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. That’s a shame,
because these two works, written in the 18th century, have
profoundly influenced our world. Since Smith’s two major works aren’t
especially easy for most non-economists to read, humorist P. J. O’Rourke
wrote a short, witty summary of Smith’s most important points. Although
his humor gets carried away in a few instances, O’Rourke does a
remarkably good job distilling the key concepts into slightly more than
200 easy-to-read pages, compared with over 1,500 not-so-easy pages by
Smith. |
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