《旅游管理专业英语》（第二版） 讲义 Lesson01 Smith, Adam.docVIP

Adam Smith 1723-1790. British philosopher and economist, whose celebrated treatise An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations国民财富的性质和原因的研究was the first serious attempt to study the nature of capital and the historical development of industry and commerce among European nations. Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. From 1748 to 1751, he gave lectures on rhetoric and belles-lettres in Edinburgh. During this period, a close association developed between Smith and the Scottish philosopher David Hume that lasted until th