Anticipating The Wealth of Nations

Maren Jonasson is Editor-in- Chief of the Collected Works of Anders Chydenius. She is currently employed by the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.Pertti Hyttinen is Editor of the Collected Works of Anders Chydenius. He is currently employed by the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.Lars Magnusson is full professor and chair in Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and chairman of Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).

'Anders Chydenius (1729-1803) has sometimes been called "Scandinavia's Adam Smith" for his publications in the 1760s. Until now it has been impossible to non-Swedish readers to judge whether this is a reasonable epithet. This collection of Chydenius's writings provides the answer.' - Bo Sandelin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Anders Chydenius' Life and Work: An Introduction Lars Magnusson. The Selected Works of Anders Chydenius Commented by Lars Magnusson Part 1: Tumultuous Dit of 1765-6 1. Answer to the Question Prescribed by the Royal Academy of Sciences: What may be the Cause of so Many People Annually Emigrating from this Country? And by what Measures may it best be Prevented? (1765) 2. The Source of Our Country's Weakness (1765) 3. The National Gain (1765) 4. A Remedy for the Country, by Means of a Natural System of Finance (1766) Part 2: Pioneering Freedom of Information 5. Memorial on the Freedom of Printing (1765) 6. Report of the Third Committee of the Grand Joint Committee of the Honourable Estates of the Realm on the Freedom of Writing and Printting, submitted at the Diet in Stockholm on 18 December 1765 7. Additional Report of the Third Committee of the Grand Joint Committee of the Honourable Estates of the Realm on the Freedom of Printing, submitted at the Diet in Stockholm on 21 April 1766 Part 3: Radical Rector of Kokkola 8. Answer to the Question posed by The Society of Arts and Sciences at Gothenburg: Whether Rural Trade is Generally Useful or Harmful to a Country, and to what Extent it Contributes to the Promotion or Decline of Industry (1777) 9. Thoughts Concerning the Natural Rights of Masters and Servants (1778) 10. Memorial, Regarding Freedom of Religion (1779) Part 4: Autobiography of Anders Chydenius 11. Autobiography submitted to the Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (1780). Appendix 1: Monetary terms. Appendix 2: Measurements and Weights