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Alfred Marshall Adam Smith

June 5, 1723 - July 17, 1790


The fame of Adam Smith rests so deservedly on his great work, the Wealth of Nations,
that the fact is apt to be lost sight of, that long before he distinguished himself as a political
economist he had gained a reputation, not confined to his own country, by his speculations
in moral philosophy. The Theory of Moral Sentiments was first published in 1759, when
its author was thirty-six; the Wealth of Nations in 1776, when he was fifty-three.
The success of the latter soon eclipsed that of his first work, but the wide celebrity which
soon attended the former is attested by the fact of. the sort of competition that ensued for
translating it into French.

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Other Published Works of Adam Smith

  1. Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms, Delivered in the University of Glasgow reported by a student in 1763, edited by Edwin Cannan (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1896).
  2. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres delivered in the University of Glasgow, reported by a student in 1762-63, edited by John M. Lothian (London, Nelson, 1963)

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