On the Division of Labor

The discovery of what is called the "division of labor" is one of the great insights of economic science. The division of labor -- the cooperation of many people into segmented aspects of the production process -- is a primary source of the rise of wealth, increasing luxury, and the cooperative and
peaceful human relationships that emerge out of the war zone of the state of nature. This idea of the division of labor was one of the many insights in Adam Smith's masterpiece The Wealth of Natio...