Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered
Robert E. Wright · 2002
74/100
👍 Worth It
Robert Wright's archival work on early American securities markets is genuinely impressive — this is not a popular history dressed up as scholarship but a real contribution to economic historiography, reviewed credibly in the American Historical Review. The information-asymmetry framework is well-applied to historical evidence. Strictly for the academic or seriously advanced reader; everyone else will find it inaccessible and expensive to obtain.
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safety94
substance86
craft68
originality82
accuracy90
hype78
age-fit60
human-eye70
Penny’s verdict74
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