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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.