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Books by Adam Smith

Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and political economist, widely regarded as the founder of modern economics. He was a professor at Glasgow University, where he taught moral philosophy and befriended David Hume and other figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. His first major work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), analyzed the moral psychology of sympathy. The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, occupied him for more than a decade and drew on his observations of commercial society in Britain and France. He served as a customs commissioner in Edinburgh from 1778 until his death.