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Adam Smith
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, a brilliant eighteenth-century Scottish political economist, had the
advantage of judging the significance ol colonies by a rigorous examination
based on the colonial experience of 300 years. His overview has a built-in bias:
he strongly disapproved of excessive regulation of colonial trade by pa ....
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....er. He has become
famous by his influential book The Wealth of Nations (1776). Smith was the son
of the comptroller of the customs at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The exact date
of his birth is unknown. However, he was baptized at Kirkcaldy on June 5, 1723,
his father having died some six months previously.
At the age of about fifteen, Smith proceeded to Glasgow university, studying
moral philosophy under "the never-to-be-forgotten" Francis Hutcheson (as Smith
called him). In 1740 he entered Ball.... |
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