Author:Adam Smith

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Adam Smith (1723–1790)

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Scottish political economist and moral philosopher whose work is credited as the genesis of the modern discipline of economics.

Adam Smith

Works

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) (external scan)
• The Wealth of Nations (1776) An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

• • Vol 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (transcription project)

• Essays on Philosophical Subjects, 1795 (external scan)
• The works of Adam Smith, 1811 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Works about Smith

• "Smith, Adam," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Smith, Adam," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• "Smith, Adam," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Adam Smith and 'The Wealth of Nations'" The Harvard Classics Vol. 51
• "Obituary of Adam Smith," The Times, 24 July 1790