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his exact date of birth isn’t known, Adam Smith’s baptism was recorded on this day in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Where he also was born.
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Smith briefly kidnapped by gypsies, according to a contemporary biography by Dugald Stewart.
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Aged 14 Smith went to study moral philosophy at Glasgow University where he later became a professor and Received M.A. degree with distinction
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Fresh with a university education but unemployed, Smith lives in Kirkcaldy with his mother and continues his studies privately.
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Adam Smith began giving a series of public lectures at the University of Edinburgh. Through these lectures, in 1750 he met and became lifelong friends with Scottish philosopher and economist David Hume
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Adam Smith became an integral part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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Smith becomes an entrepreneur of sorts, becoming a popular freelance lecturer in Edinburgh, where he enters into a deep and lifelong friendship with the most eminent philosopher of the age, David Hume.
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Smith stays in London through the winter attending to Lord Townshend’s research project on the national debt, which has ballooned during the Seven Years War. Townshend by this time is Chancellor of the Exchequer, an equivalent position to Treasury Secretary in the United States.
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Adam Smiths first book is published The Theory of Moral Sentiments’.
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Smith returns briefly to Scotland where his dear friend Hume is dying.
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thought of as the first work dedicated to the study of political economy. Economics of the time were dominated by the idea that a country’s wealth was best measured by its store of gold and silver.
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Smith returns briefly to Kirkcaldy, entering temporary retirement, and amuses himself by writing a book on the arts.
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Smith was named rector of the University of Glasgow just three years before he had died.
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He had died at the age of sixty-seven, and was buired in Edinburgh’s Cannongate Kirkyard.
