Early German Responses: Adam Smith (History of German Economic Thought)

Adam Smith: Early German Responses is a four-volume set which includes Lueder's principal economic work, the 3-volume Nationalindustrie und Staatswirthschaft (3 vols., 1800-04), a paraphrase of Smith's system in which he seeks to illustrate the doctrines of the Wealth of Nations by means of geography and books of travel. With this is the exceptionally scarce first edition of the first German abridgement of Smith's greatest work, Handbuch der Staatswirthschaft (1769), prepared by another of the small group of German economists to first understand and diffuse Smith's ideas, Georg Sartorius.

--Source texts for modern German economic development
--New Introduction by Hiroshi Mizuta
--Texts by two of the earliest German representatives of Smith scholarship