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Description: | s.d. inscr. base "ADAM SMITH IN HIS 64TH YEAR 1789/ Tassie F" CRE TASSIE, James; (Scottish; 1735-1799) 1789 Adam Smith, the Scottish political economist and moral philosopher began his education at the University of Glasgow, studying under Francis Hutcheson. In 1740 he entered Balliol College, Oxford and subsequently returned to the University of Glasgow in 1751, where he was appointed professor of logic, transferring in 1752 to the chair of moral philosophy. In 1776 he published his most famous work The Wealth of Nations, a classic manifesto against mercantilism and arguably the most influential book on the subject ever published. It did much to create the field of economics and develop it into an autonomous systematic discipline. In 1778 Smith was appointed to a comfortable post as commissioner of customs in Scotland and went to live with his mother in Edinburgh, where he died on July 17, 1790. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | UNIVERSITY HISTORY : HISTPER : HISTORICAL COLLECTION : HUNTER THE MAN_2007 : TASSIE_M : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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