Michael, > To what extent was the Wealth of Nation written as a blueprint for Scotland rather than England? This might help you: T.C. Smout Where had the Scottish economy got to by the third quarter of the eighteenth century? Wealth and virtue : the shaping of political economy in the Scottish enlightenment / edited by Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983. Masazumi Wakatabe