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Overview of writings

“The Theory of MoralSentiments”

“The Wealth of Nations”

WORKS BY SMITH

SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adam Smith (–) was born inKirkcaldy, Fifeshire, a fisheries and mining town near Edinburgh.

Hewas the son, by a second marriage, of Adam Smith, comptroller of thecustoms at Kirkcaldy, who died early in ; his mother, MargaretDouglas, was the daughter of a substantial landowner in lived with his mother whenever he was in Scotland until herdeath in ; he was her only child, and he remained a bacheloruntil his death.

Smith received his elementary schooling inKirkcaldy and entered the University of Glasgow in , graduatingwith an M.A.

in He then went to Oxford University as a Snellfellow at Balliol College, where he stayed until Beyond thefact that at Glasgow he was a student of Francis Hutcheson, almostnothing is reliably known about his intellectual experiences eitherat Glasgow or at Oxford.

From to he lived with his motherin Kirkcaldy, presumably con