should be able. doubling income of the small farmers the next ten or 15 years. exactly. excellent. .. he was a moral or an island in the 18th century, who wrote a book on moral philosophy first. and used to get a set of lectures that choo-choo for moral philosophy to economics and eventually wrote a very long book on economics, often for the founding text and inquiry in the nature and causes of the nation. and he s been extremely everson although as a philosopher i wish people would look at it more as a philosopher than just as an economist. we will get to that. the proposal russell roberts at george mason university. what has been the impact of the wealth of nations? guest: teaching a lot of economics along the centuries was published in 1776 really saadi holds on for social science. the combination of empirical work, observation, logic, philosophy, all melted together. it s really an extraordinary work that ascendant norm if impact on scholars in the real world.