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Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

By: David Womersley, Mark Packer, Freya Johnston, Brian Young, and Béla Kapossy

Arriving in 1776, as the Declaration of Independence gave birth to a new nation and Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations gave birth to a new discipline--modern economics, Gibbon’s Decline and…
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Compounding Interest: Revisiting The Wealth of Nations at 250

By: Eric Schliesser, Maria Pia Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen, Brianne Wolf, Jacob T. Levy, and Craig Smith

Arriving in 1776, as the Declaration of Independence gave birth to a new nation and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall gave birth to a new approach to history, Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations gave…
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