# Adam Smith

> He wrote the book that made economics a discipline. The Wealth of Nations dismantled divine explanations for wealth and power, replaced them with markets and self-interest, and gave classical capitalism its intellectual scaffolding.

*Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1723
- **Died:** 1790-07-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Kirkcaldy and educated at Glasgow and Oxford - one of the few to hold a John Snell scholarship - Smith lectured at Edinburgh to early acclaim, then collaborated with David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment. He took a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy, where he published The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759. A tutoring post later took him across Europe to meet the era's leading minds. In 1776 he published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, a frontal challenge to mercantilism that laid out division of labor, absolute advantage, and the case for rational self-interest guiding prosperity. The work became the foundation of modern economic thought. Writers like Horace Walpole mocked his style, but the framework held.

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## Topics
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