A Brazilian Adam Smith

Adam Smith’s seminal work, The Wealth of Nations, was introduced to Brazilian readers by an autodidatic “economist”, José da Silva Lisboa, at the beginning of the 19th century. The paper intends to reconstruct the reception of Smith’s ideas in Brazil (and Portugal), through the early works of José...

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Main Author: Paulo Roberto Almeida
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Instituto Mises Brasil 2018-04-01
Series:Mises
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Online Access:https://misesjournal.org.br/misesjournal/article/view/64