100 Best Scottish Books, Adam Smith

Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations (1776)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

Margaret Thatcher, it is said, used to carry a copy of The Wealth of Nations in her handbag. It's an apocryphal story but highlights the fact that the deregulation of the 1980s was often undertaken in Adam Smith's name. Yet reading it today, 229 years…