To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, I have been featuring each of the sections of Smith’s magnum opus on my blog. Below, for example, is a compilation of my previous blog posts on Book IV of The Wealth of Nations:

1. Adam Smith calls bullshit!
2. Adam Smith on the economics of war
3. Some final thoughts on Book IV, Chapter 1 of The Wealth of Nations
4. Adam Smith’s finest chapter
5. Whose hand?
6. Adam Smith, anti-racist
7. Adam Smith, the Bank of Amsterdam, and the fetish of trade balances
8. Some final thoughts on Book IV, Chapter 3 of The Wealth of Nations: of absolute advantage
9. Adam Smith the pragmatist
10. Adam Smith’s critique of crony capitalism
11. Adam Smith’s paradoxes
12. Adam Smith’s subtle critique of bilateral trade treaties in Book IV, Chapter 6
13. Adam Smith’s detour on seignorage
14. Adam Smith’s scathing critique of Spanish colonialism
15. Adam Smith’s scathing critique of European colonialism more generally
16. Top Ten Plays in Part 3 of Chapter 7 of Book IV of The Wealth of Nations
17. Das Adam Smith Koloneiproblem
18. Adam Smith’s scathing critique of the East India Company’s double monopoly
19. The true villains in The Wealth of Nations
20. Doctor Quesnay’s fallacy
21. In praise of natural liberty: some closing thoughts on Book IV of The Wealth of Nations

In all, I wrote up 21 separate blog posts on this part of Smith’s treatise between 9 February and 5 March of this year. (See also here, here, and here for compilations of my previous posts on Books I to III of The Wealth of Nations.) Bonus link: You can order an “Adam Smith Wealth of Nations Great Books Graphic T-Shirt” (see below) here, via Liberty Maniacs.