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Moral philosopher and economist · 1723–1790 · Economics & Ideas
Wrote The Wealth of Nations, and a book on moral sentiment before it that most people who quote him have never opened.
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“People of the same trade seldom meet together, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public.”
Smith, The Wealth of Nations I.x
Smith held the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow, where he published The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 — an account of ethics built on sympathy and the impartial spectator inside us. He left teaching to tutor a young duke on a European tour, met Voltaire and the French physiocrats, and returned to Kirkcaldy to spend a decade writing An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776. It opens with a pin factory to explain the division of labour, attacks monopolies, guild restrictions and the mercantile system, and warns that businessmen conspire against the public. The invisible hand appears exactly once. He became a customs commissioner and burned most of his papers before dying.
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You can put that to the Adam Smith persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Adam Smith’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1723–1790, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Adam Smith persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Adam Smith’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1723–1790, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Adam Smith persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Adam Smith’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1723–1790, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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