caa a22 4500 388040637 CHVBK 20180307125020.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1053837200001619 doi S1053837200001619 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1053837200001619 Rima Ingrid H. Class Conflict and Adam Smith's "Stages of Social History” [Elektronische Daten] [Ingrid H. Rima] The Wealth of Nations (WN) is not a book from which we expect much enlightenment about class conflict. In spite of well-known passages referring to the diverging interests of workers, landlords and capitalists, the impression most have of WN is one of relative harmony among the classes. Nevertheless, Book III, "Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations,” which is the briefest and also the least studied of the five books comprising WN, provides considerable insight into the historical origin of conflict among social classes that derive from economic causes, and the circumstances under which conflict promises to become a characteristic feature of the economic process in any society.1 A re-examination of Adam Smith's theory of natural price in the context of the "stages of social history” developed in Book III, leads to interpreting the prospect for class conflict as a more integral and substantive part of WN than is generally recognized by historians of economic thought. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Journal of the History of Economic Thought Cambridge University Press 20/1(1998-03), 103-113 1053-8372 20:1<103 1998 20 HET https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837200001619 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837200001619 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rima Ingrid H. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the History of Economic Thought Cambridge University Press 20/1(1998-03), 103-113 1053-8372 20:1<103 1998 20 HET CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge