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Adam Smith’s ‘Wealth of Nations’ Helped Create the World’s Wealthiest Nation“Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and his capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men,” Adam Smith wrote in , published March 9, 1776. Thomas Jefferson didn’t get a chance to read Wealth of Nations before starting on the Declaration of Independence two months later. Jefferson’s assault was political, arguing that a free people had the right to reject a tyrannical king.
