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A 3 page paper which offers a biography of the economist Adam Smith. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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world of academia, and also well known for his philosophical studies and lectures. Although he is perhaps not that well known to most, he is a man who proved to
be a crucial figure in the study and emergence of economics, and most especially the philosophical nature of economics. The following paper offers a biography of Adam Smith.
Adam Smith: Economist "Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The exact date of his birth is unknown, however, he was baptized
on June 5, 1723" (Lucid Caf?). His father apparently died before he was born and his mother raised him (Heart O Scotland). He was also very devoted to her and
he never married (Heart O Scotland). In the year 1751 he became a professor of logic at the University of Glasgow and then the following year he became the chair
of moral philosophy (Lucid Caf?). It is interesting to note that Smith was actually more of a philosopher than an economist, or at least he was more known for philosophy
than for economics. He gave many lectures which covered many different topics that were connected to philosophy, but also to economics as it related to philosophy. The lectures covered such
topics as rhetoric, ethics, political economy, and jurisprudence" (Lucid Caf?). In the year 1759 he published a work which was the
Theory of Moral Sentiments (Lucid Caf?). It was a work that was essentially comprised of many of his lectures (Lucid Caf?). "This work was about those standards of ethical conduct
that hold society together, with emphasis on the general harmony of human motives and activities under a beneficent Providence" (Lucid Caf?). Then in 1764 he left for the European continent,
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