Often called the founder of modern economics, Adam Smith, born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, June 5, 1723, was a wide-ranging social philosopher and economist whose masterwork, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" (1776), is one of the most influential studies of Western civilization. Smith's intellectual interests were extensive. He wrote an important philosophical treatise, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)," and was well versed in science and history. He studied at Glasgow and Oxford …showed first 75 words of 932 total…

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