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BASE TEXT

Author, original title and year of 1st edn
Smith, Adam
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
London, W. Straham & T. Cadell, 1776, 2 vols.
Base of translation
Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat Marquis of
Recherches sur la nature et les causes des richesses des nations, in Bibliothèque de l’homme public; un Analyse raisonnée des principaux ourrages françois et étrangers, sur la politique, la législation, les finances, la police, agriculture et le commerce en particulier, et sur droit naturel et public, vols. III, pp. 108-216, and IV, pp. 3-115, Paris, Buisson, 1790

TRANSLATION INFO

original language
French
translation into
Spanish
type of original text
Chapter in a book
type of translated text
Book
timeline
18th Century

BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION FOR DOCUMENT

Surname and Name
of Author (in the original language)
Smith, Adam
Year of publication
1792
Title
Compendio de la obra inglesa intitulada Riqueza de las Naciones, hecho por el marqués de Condorcet, y traducido al castellano, con varias adicciones (sic) del original
Edition number
1
Place
Madrid
Country
Spain
Publisher
Imprenta Real
Number of vols/parts
1 (XI + 302 p.)

TRANSLATION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Text type
Translated selection
Composition of text
Translation was made just of the chapters corresponding to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Within this, some parts of the original text by Condorcet were expurgated in order to avoid censorship in Spain.
Translator’s name(s)
Martínez de Irujo, Carlos
Editorial apparatus
Preface of translator(s)
Index
Editor’s or translator’s in-text comments ()

OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION

On Line source (URL)
http://books.google.pt/books?id=ty1Mk6cP0TgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=condorcet&hl=ca&sa=X&ei=jpXgT_qLHuTE0QXJrIWTDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Basic secondary literature on this text
Lluch, E. 1989. "Condorcet et la diffusion de La Richesse des nations en Espagne", en Condorcet: mathématicien, économiste, philosophe, homme politique. Colloque international sous la direction de Pierre Crépel et Christian Gilain, París, Minerve, p. 188-195.

Schwartz, P. (2000), "La recepción inicial de 'La riqueza de las naciones' in Fuentes Quintana, E. (ed.), Economía y economistas españoles, vol 4. La economía clásica, Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, pp. 171-238.

Smith, R.S. (1957), "The Wealth of Nations in Spain and Hispanic America”, Journal of Political Economic, 65 (2), pp. 104-125.


Smith, Robert S. (1967), "The First Spanish Edition of the Wealth of Nations", South African Journal of Economics, 35 (3), pp, 265-268.

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