Doug: It depends--of course--on the type of course, students, and coverage you are presenting, but I find that a 'typical' undergrad HET course (one that might use Colander, or Ekeland&Hebert, or Rima, or Brue, etc. as a 'main' text) that Stigler's 'Selections from the Wealth of Nations' (about 1/9th of the original, paperback and very inexpensive) allows the students to get enough exposure to Smith's rhetoric, style and thought processes without Smith becoming the entire course. If you have the luxury of being able to devote an entire course to Smith, I guess I'd recommend the Modern Library/Edwin Cannan edition, but here I defer to anyone who has taught an entire course on Smith. This edition, by the way, is available in hardback also quite cheap (about $16 on Amazon.com). David Hammes