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Title: Economist


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Adam Smith
  • Economist
  • 1723-1790

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When he was very young.
  • Adam Smiths birth date is not known , but he was
    baptised on the fifth of June 1723 in Kirkcaldy,
    Scotland. He was kidnapped when he was 3 but was
    later returned to his widowed mother

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Universities
  • Adam Smith went to the University of Glasgow when
    he was fourteen years of age. Then in 1740 he
    went to the Balliol college, Oxford.

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Also.
  • Adam Smith was a pioneer of political economy.
    Smith is best known for two classic works The
    theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An inquiry
    of the Nature and causes of the wealth of Nations
    (1776) .

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Adam Smith Monument
  • On the fourth of July 2008, the ASI unveiled the
    world's first major public monument to Adam Smith.

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Died
  • Adam Smith died
  • aged 67 in 1790.
  • He was buried in the
  • Canongate Kirkyard,
  • Edinburgh.

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