《原富》是严复翻译的,后人列为“严译八大名著”的第二部。原书名An Inquiry into Na-ture and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,为英国经济学家斯密·亚丹Adam Smith(1723—1790)所著,是资产阶级经济学的经典著作。原书出版于1776年。 戊戌变法的前一年1897年(光绪二十三年),严复便着手翻译此书。1901年(光绪二十七年)首二部交上海南洋公学(交通大学的前身)译书院出版,1902年10月(光绪二十八年九月),全书出齐。该书分甲、乙、丙、丁、戊五部,其中部甲十一篇、部乙五篇、部丙四篇、部丁九 “Former Fu” is translated by Yan Fu, and his descendants are listed as the second part of “Eight Masterpieces of Yan”. The original book, An Inquiry into Na-ture and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, by the British economist Adam Adams Adam Smith (1723-1790), is a bourgeois economics classic. The original book was published in 1776. In 1897 the year before the Reform Movement of 1898 (Guangxu twenty-three years), Yen Fu started to translate this book. 1901 (twenty-seven years Guangxu) the first two handed Shanghai Nanyang Public School (predecessor of Jiaotong University) Translation Institute published in October 1902 (Guangxu twenty-eight years in September), the book came together. The book points A, B, C, D, E five, including a Ministry of Eleven, Part B five, Part IV four, Ding nine