Adam+Smith

"Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view.”
 * [[image:smith.gif width="237" height="270"]]Adam Smith**

Was a Scottish philosopher famous for his ponderings on moral philosophy and his inquiries into economics. >> >> 1.Student stayed on topic >> >> 2. Student was original >> >> 3. Student used all letters of the subjects name >> >> 4.Each phrase relates to the topic >> A >> nti-Aristocracy >> D >> isplacer of Tradition >> A >> cademic >> M >> ercantalism >> **S >> cottland >> M >> orals >> I >> ndustrialism >> T >> reasury >> H >> ume**
 * Was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. (1723-1790)
 * Lived alongside some influential figures such as Isaac Newton, Edmund Burke, and David Hume. Went to Oxford at seventeen in 1746, becomes a professor of Logic at Glasgow five years later.
 * In 1759, Smith writes his first major work, the __Theory of Moral Sentiments__
 * After being a tutor, and traveling the continent, Adam Smith publishes “The Wealth of Nations”
 * The Wealth of Nations was the first real investigation of the history and workings of the Economy.
 * Close friends with David Hume, who wasa major influence to his philosophies, until his death in 1776.
 * Studied the development of Economics in his later years. He combined economics with Politics.
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