Peaucelle, Jean-Louis - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 13 (2006) 4, pp. 489-512
At the beginning of The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith describes a pin factory. It is widely accepted that this example comes from Diderot's Encyclopaedia, published in France in the 18th century. The details in the text together with the conferences previously given in Glasgow clearly show that...