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(1776), is widely considered the foundational text of modern economics. Writing at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, Smith sought to understand how societies grow wealthier and why certain nations prosper while others stagnate. His treatise challenged the then-dominant theory of mercantilism—which viewed wealth as a fixed stockpile of gold and silver—and replaced it with a dynamic vision of wealth as the "annual produce of the land and labor of the society". Key Pillars of Smith’s Economic Theory adam smit bogatstvo naroda pdf full