Talk:The Wealth of Nations

Ok, the basic text is finished, only thing left are the tables... now im not great with tables, so if anyone else ann format them it would be great. --CGorman 22:27, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * This text is 2134 kilobytes long, which is much too large, and a breakup in subpages is definitely needed. To many people, pages this large takes an eternity to open - if the browser doesn't crash in the process. I may look at the tables some day, presently the page size is a more urgent problem. It would be great if you will start breaking it up:) Christian S 08:59, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Ok, I'll break it up into chapters soon. Thanks for your opinion on the matter. --CGorman 16:02, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Done --CGorman 17:53, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks - this is much better:-) I will look at the tables when i can find the time. Christian S 06:42, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I have now formatted the tables, hopefully to your satisfaction. If not, then please do tell so they can be corrected. The only tables I haven't formattet are those in Chapter 11: Of the Rent of Land - I cannot format those unless somebody supplies their content. Christian S 15:57, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

When ist this text issued? And where? Ich think, id would be fine to have an biliographie MAtthias

Candidate for migration to DjVu
Ideally we should be moving this work over to a djvu and apply match and split. — billinghurst  sDrewth  04:25, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * If we can get a legit copy that doesn't leave out any sections or chapters from the original, I'd help out with this... I don't know how to "match & split" the correct way, but I would be willing to teach myself! Londonjackbooks (talk) 21:47, 10 November 2011 (UTC)


 * One scan to consider - DutchTreat (talk) 01:32, 9 December 2015 (UTC)


 * The last edition published during the author's lifetime was the 5th edition in 1789. Volume 2 (of 3) is here -- . I don't see the other two 5th edition volumes on Internet Archive, but according to The Wealth of Nations (note #4), Google books has the 3-volume set. The drawback is that the original uses long s, making it difficult to transcribe and read. There are a lot of "editions" of this work out there. It looks like the version here might come from Library of Economics and Liberty, 1904. Outlier59 (talk) 12:01, 1 August 2016 (UTC)


 * vol 1, vol 2, vol 3 now available. If this is the best edition to have on WS, I would be happy to proofread with long s’s, a second copy (is this an annotated copy?) could then be done with long s’s --> s’s. Zoeannl (talk) 10:26, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I have finished migrating the last volume. Bloated Dummy (talk) 22:40, 27 May 2024 (UTC)