This work claimed that slavery was uneconomical because the cost of maintaining slaves was greater than using free workers and that the plantation system was a wasteful use of land.
This work claimed that slavery was uneconomical because the cost of maintaining slaves was greater than using free workers and that the plantation system was a wasteful use of land. It is better known for defending a laissez- faire system by suggesting that an invisible hand led people who sought their own good to act in ways best for all. For ten points, identify this 1776 political economic treatise by Adam Smith.
This work claimed that slavery was uneconomical because the cost of maintaining slaves was greater than using free workers and that the plantation system was a wasteful use of land.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the {Wealth of Nations}