Rissa (rissasreading)’s Reviews > An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations > Status Update

This is genuinely one of the hardest economic reads to slog through. Not because it's super smart, hard to conceive or anything of that sort. It's hard to read because Smith uses so many words and particular examples to push his narrative and he says so much but actually says very little.

This is moreso fascinating in the sense of understanding how our current capitalist beliefs came to be contrived

"Labour therefore is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities"

& My professor at university has the audacity to tell me I was wrong when saying both radical and neoclassical perspectives view the economy and market through labour 🤬

Wtf was chapter 3 💀

That was a whole lot of words to say nothing besides describing geography

"Reducing every mans business to some one simple operation, and making it the sole employment of his life, necessarily increased the dexterity of the workman"

Saying the quiet part out loud huh?