In 1766, Henry Scott's younger brother died in Paris, and Smith's tour as a tutor ended shortly thereafter.Smith returned home that year to Kirkcaldy, and he devoted much of the next ten years to his magnum opus
Best-known for his founding work of economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith engaged equally with the nature of morality in his Theory of Moral Sentiments. He also gave lectures on literature and jurisprudence, and wrote papers on art and science. In this outstanding philosophical... (展开全部...
An economist, Adam Smith, famously wrote that “it is not from the benevolence (慈善)of the butcher, the brewer or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.” Like Smith, many economists today believe that one’s self-interest is what drives...
【题文】“Sugar, alcohol and tobacco,” economist Adam Smith once wrote, “are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.”Two and a half centuries on, most countri...
Nicholas Phillipson's biography of Adam Smith provides a good picture of the grand scheme from which Smith's various books emerge as well as the different scenes and relationships, from Glasgow to Edinburgh, in which he wrote them. Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life has been widely praised for ...
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish historian, political economist, writer, rhetorician, astronomer, and social philosopher, who wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'. It is considered the first book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. ...
Life of Adam Smith By JOHN RAE London MACMILLAN & CO. AND NEW YORK 1895 PREFACE The fullest account we possess of the life of Adam Smith is still the memoir which Dugald Stewart read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on two evenings of the winter of 1793, and which he subsequently publi...
B An economist, Adam Smith, famously wrote that “It is not from the benevolence(仁慈) of the butcher, the brewer or the baker,that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." Like Smith, many economists today believe one's self-interest is what drives competition...
An economist,Adam Smith,famously wrote that "it is not from the benevolence(慈善)of the butcher,the brewer or the baker,that we expect our dinner,but from their regard to their own self-interest." Like Smith,many economists today believe one's self-interest is what drives competition and ...
Other Books by Seth Adam Smith Your Life Isn't for You Marriage Isn't for You Dedicated to Boyd Adams, my grandfather, and Lyn Adams Smith, my mother, for their never-ending faith and support. You are the reason why I insist on going by my full name. 1 By the Beating of Our Own...