An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition

By Adam Smith. 2008

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Technological complexity and economic growth of regions (2020, background): “Besides their e↵ects on individual well-being, specialization and the division of labor increased productivity, generated economic surpluses and allowed for sustaining larger population sizes (Smith, 1776).”
Global urbanization and food production in direct competition for land: Leverage places to mitigate impacts on SDG2 and on the Earth System (2019, background): “Evidence emerging from archaeological and historical research provides an important frame of reference supporting the claim that UPA increases the capacity for local resiliency functions against food supply perturbations (Barthel and Isendahl, 2013; Barthel et al., 2015; Isendahl and Stump, 2019; Si”