Primary Sources on Economic History
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Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, c. 340 BC
See Book I: Chapters III and IV; Book II: Chapter IX; Book IV: Chapters I and III; and Book V: Chapter VIII.
Aristotle’s Politics: A Treatise on Government, c. 350 BC
See Book 1: Chapters VIII, IX, X, and XI
Arthashastra of Kautilya, c. 175–300 CE
See: Chapters VI, VII, and VIII
John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, 1936
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