SMITH

ADAM, >. at mring~ § 1723,.jd. 1790, the famous author “ The -| Wealth of Nations,” established by this ‘}work the treatment of F poe enemy }jas a separate branch ——;}was educated at Glasgow Uni ty, and.| Balliol College, Oxford, and as a tra.|tat or to the Duke of Buccleuch he in the intellectual life of Paris. His book lis a fearle exposition of the economic soundne of Free Trade. It contained |too much destructive criticism to be a '|systematic treatise on political economy,, | but, when the stre of the Napoleonic Wars '|}bad pa ed, it found numberle admirers ijand did a great deal towards forming the ‘}body of opinion that established Free || Trade In this country. ‘| SMITH, [s. 281]