Observations on the Means of Exciting a Spirit of National Industry: Chiefly Intended to Promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland. In a Series of Letters to a Friend ...This is the first Irish edition of "Observations ..." which was originally published in Edinburgh in 1777. The work contains one of the earliest critiques of Smith's "Wealth of nations". |
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