Adam Smith
Author · 32 books
Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher, Enlightenment thinker and economist. He taught moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow and published his first major work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, in 1759. In it, he examined the foundations of moral judgment and the role of sympathy. His principal work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, appeared in 1776 and became a foundational text of classical economics and economic liberalism. Smith died in Edinburgh in 1790.