According to Adam Smith, the government should be responsible for
A. encouraging producers to act in their own self-interest.
B. imposing tariffs and quotas on any imported products.
C. helping business owners develop a sense of self-respect.
D. setting the amount that could be charged for a product.
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What was the most important document published in 1776? Most Americans would probably say The Declaration of Independence. But many would argue that Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" had a bigger and more global impact.
On March 9, 1776, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"—commonly referred to simply as "The Wealth of Nations"—was first published.1 Smith, a Scottish moral philosopher by trade, wrote the book to describe the industrialized capitalist system that was upending the mercantilist system. Mercantilism held that wealth was fixed and finite, and that the only way to prosper was to hoard gold and tariff products from abroad. According to this theory, nations should sell their goods to other countries while buying nothing in return. Predictably, countries fell into rounds of retaliatory tariffs that choked off international trade.