Adam Smith
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Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by many as the "father of economics", or
Posthumous Muir portrait, c. 1800
Portrait of Smith's mother, Margaret Douglas
François Quesnay, one of the leaders of the physiocratic school of thought
David Hume was a friend and contemporary of Smith's.
Scottish Enlightenment
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The Scottish Enlightenment was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By the eighteenth century, Scotland ha
David Hume and Adam Smith on the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Atlas Van der Hagen KW1049B11 038 SCOTIA REGNUM cum insulis adjacentibus