title: Adam Smith: A Moral Philosopher and His Political Economy (Great Thinkers in Economics)
author: G. Kennedy
description: GAVIN KENNEDYisauthor of <em>Adam Smith's Lost Legacy</em> and is Emeritus Professor at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, UK.He has published widely in the negotiation process.
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  # An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
  
  
  Nations
  
  
  ## Adam Smith
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  **Published:** 1776  
  
  
  **Categorie(s):** Non-Fiction, Social science, Political
  
  
  science, Science and Technics, Science  
  
  
  **Source:** http://en.wikisource.org
  
  
  
  
  
  **About Smith:**  
  
  
  Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5, 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. –
  
  
  July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering
  
  
  political economist. He is also the founder of economics. One of
  
  
  the key figures of the intellectual movement known as the Scottish
  
  
  Enlightenment, he is known primarily as the author of two
  
  
  treatises: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An Inquiry
  
  
  into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The
  
  
  latter was one of the earliest attempts to systematically study the
  
  
  historical development of industry and commerce in Europe, as we