The book is mostly theoretical, yet without the help of mathematics. The author laid out hundreds of pages of words to illustrate (not exactly proving) one proposition/hypothesis about how production in the general sense is related to the degree of labor division. It is like one of those books on the best-selling bookshelves of any bookstore today, throwing out a big new idea, and spending the whole book trying to convince everyone to buy it. The only difference is few of the best-sellers today attracted as many politicians as the Wealth of Nations, which attractiveness is crucial to the correctness of that same big new idea. For those who succeeded in appealing to the right audience group, they become eminent scholars.
The reason I dislikes Mr Adam Smith so much is probably in his uprightness. He does not have a sense of humor, at least not when writing this book. He has passion though, reflected truthfully in the book, and they were devoted solely to the well-being of the People. Without humor a book can be very ugly to read. He should at least think of his offspring who so want to admire their grandfather by reading his words. But maybe this plainness is exactly how Mr Adam Smith won over his fellow politicians as well as his later countrymen of America.
The reason I dislikes Mr Adam Smith so much is probably in his uprightness. He does not have a sense of humor, at least not when writing this book. He has passion though, reflected truthfully in the book, and they were devoted solely to the well-being of the People. Without humor a book can be very ugly to read. He should at least think of his offspring who so want to admire their grandfather by reading his words. But maybe this plainness is exactly how Mr Adam Smith won over his fellow politicians as well as his later countrymen of America.
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