Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall, two influential economists in different eras in time. One's Scottish in the 1700's and the other is from England in the 1800‘s. This is a summary about there lives and how they impacted the world of economics. Adam Smith was born 1723 in Scotland, he was a child genius. He attended the University of Glasgow when he was only 14 years old. He graduated early, only to transfer to Oxford University for 6 more years. He then returned to his homeland of Scotland to teach. He taught Literature, Logic, and Economics. At the age of 40 he began traveling Europe. He got to meet other great philosophers . By this time he was already famous, in 1959 he wrote the book "Moral Sentiments ". Would think that would be enough but Adam wasn't done. He wanted to accomplish more, he wanted to provide more insight in the matters of economics and political philosophy as well as ethics and moral philosophy. He began working on a book called "The Wealth of Nations". That book......

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