Questions about Adam Smith answered:
- When was he born? June 5, 1723.
- Where was he born? Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
- When did he die? July 17, 1790.
- Where did he die? Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
- From what, did he die from? Unspecified.
- Where did your person grow up? His father had died two months before his birth and had a strong lifelong attachment developed between him and his mother. As an infant, Adam was kidnaped, but he was rescued soon after. At the age of fourteen, he enrolled in the University of Glasgow, where he remained for three years. The lectures of Francis Hutcheson exerted a strong influenced on him. In 1740 he transferred to Balliol College, Oxford, where he remained for almost seven years, receiving a bachelor of arts degree in 1744. He devoted himself to his studies.
- What is his accomplishments? Most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, povery with abundance, and despair with happiness.
- What did he fail at? The government shouldn't have turned his idea of Laissez-faire.
- Why is he important to learn about? Father of capitalism and the free market economy, had the idea of the invisible hand leading the economy rather than the government.
- Why would you like to research on him? When he went to London, he meet one of my favorite people in history, Ben Franklin.
- Why wouldn't you like research on him? Reading about his childhood.