The Wealth of Nations: Part 2 (Giants of Political Thought - Audio Classics series)(Library Edition) (The Audio Classics Series: Giants of Political Thought)
ADAM SMITH (1723-1790) was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. He entered the University of Glasgow at age fourteen and later attended Balliol College at Oxford. After lecturing for a period, he held several teaching positions at the University of Glasgow. His greatest achievement was writingThe Wealth of Nations, a five-book series that sought to reveal the true causes of prosperity and which established him as the father of contemporary economic thought.