Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise: How the Founding Fathers Turned to a Great Economist's Writings and Created the American Economy

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Adam Smith was a Scottish professor of moral philosophy. He published his classic The Wealth of Nations in 1776, the year the American Revolution began. Smith became widely known for his ideas of free markets, laissez-faire commerce, and the "invisible hand." Yet English politicians, landed... read more

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In 1718, a twenty-four-year-old Frenchman named Francois Marie Arouet was released from the Bastille, where he had been imprisoned for a year because of satirical ramarks critical of the French monarchy and its harsh system of social justice.

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