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Adam Smith was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1723. He entered the University of Glasgow at age fourteen, and later attended Balliol College at Oxford. After lecturing for a period, he held several teaching positions at Glasgow University. His greatest achievement was writingThe Wealth of Nations(1776), a five-book series that sought to expose the true causes of prosperity, and installed him as the father of contemporary economic thought. He died in Edinburgh on July 19, 1790.Smith, Adam is the author of 'Wealth of Nations An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes', published 1994 under ISBN 9780679424734 and ISBN 0679424733.
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