ABSTRACT
Although the influx of economic ideas in Spain in the first half of the nineteenth century was dominated by French currents—indeed, the period has been dubbed the “Age of Say”—The Wealth of Nations (WN) was also very present during these decades. This chapter provides a systematic review of the economic works published by Spanish authors between 1820 and 1840, with a view to analysing national “readings” of the WN. The chapter begins by examining the sources through which such works entered Spain, once summaries and partial translations had become popularised. It also intends to define which of the five books into which the WN was divided were the most influential in order to know the issues or questions in which Smith had the greatest presence. Finally, it examines whether Smith’s thought was linked to any school, current or group of authors, and the criteria used to establish such links.
