This study, first published in 1983, is primarily concerned with what the British economists over the period 1860 to 1914 wrote on a range of economic and non-economic aspects of the British Empire, and the reasons for their conclusions.

The author, John Cunningham Wood, from Edith Cowan University, writes about the life of this leading economist (as the author says) and the books are focused on the critical assessments of Smith."--Amazon.com.