英国十八世纪的著名经济学家亚当·斯密倾注一生心血的杰作《国民财富的性质和原因》(简称《国富论》),可以说是一部经济学百科全书。它共有五篇三十二章,基本上反映了人类当时所建树的全部经济学理论。正如著名的英国经济思想史学家埃里克·罗尔指出,亚当·斯密是第一位学术性经济学家,他为杂乱的经济思想带来秩序,建立经济思想的系统性和完 Adam Smith, a well-known economist of the 18th century in the United Kingdom, devoted his life-long masterpiece, “The Nature and Cause of National Wealth” (“Wealth of Nations” for short), can be said to be an encyclopedia of economics. It has a total of five thirty-two chapters, basically reflecting all the economic theories that mankind had at that time. As the famous British economic thinker Eric Roal pointed out, Adam Smith was the first academic economist who brought order to cluttered economic thinking and established a systematic and complete economic thinking