Source: EconLog
by Henry Oliver
“Smith shows himself a great reader, not just of his great favorite Jonathan Swift, but of the other great English authors like Addison and Johnson. He recommended reading the novelist Samuel Richardson as well as Racine and Voltaire. Smith was a truly rounded humanist, a man who knew enough of life and books to write not just a great treatise but a work of significant pleasure.” (03/27/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/the-wealth-of-nations-a-classic-of-english-literature