Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland in 1723. It isn't known the exact day he was born. Adam's father died before he was born. Smith attended school in Kirkcaldy where teachers noticed that he had an extremely good memory and loved to read books (Stewart). When he was 14, Adam went to the University of Glasgow where one of his teachers was Dr. Hutcheson, who has been called the "father of speculative philosophy in Scotland in modern times" (Chew). In 1740, when Smith was 17, he got a scholarship at Oxford where he learned the Greek language and in 1748 Smith moved to Edinburgh.

In 1751, Smith was named the professor of logic at Glasgow University, and then in 1752 he took the chair of moral philosophy. He remained in this chair for 13 years. His course of lectures consisted of four different parts. The four parts were, natur

"All systems either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself on its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient: the duty of superintending the industry of private people" (Smith).

Adam Smith was extremely important for economics. His book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was a huge step forward in the field of economics. He spent most of his life studying either economics or some other field and it showed by his works.

al theology, ethics, the branch of morality which relates to justice, and the fourth part in which he examined "those political regulations which are founded, not upon the principle of justice, but that of expediency, and which are calculated to increase the riches, the power, and the prosperity of a State" (Stewart). While he was working there he published his first work, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," which spread to Germany and France. Smith kept revising this work throughout his whole life (Griswold).

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