Adam Smith

Category

Library Item

Item no

13477

Title

The author of the Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith, LL.D. and F.R.S. of London and Edinburgh)

Description

Adam Smith wearing a hat and coat and carrying a stick points to one of many books on a desk. An ink pot and quill are also placed on the table.

Artist / maker

Kay, John

Date

1790

Size

14 x 9 cm

Type

Etching

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The accompanying text in the volume begins as follows:
"The Doctor is here represented with his celebrated work, 'The Wealth of Nations' on the table before him."

Adam Smith was born in 1723 was a moral philosopher and a pioneering political economics, and one of the key figures of the intellectual movement the Scottish Enlightenment. He is known primarily as the author of two treatises: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). His work helped to create the modern academic discipline of economics and provided one of the best-known rationales for free trade.

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