Postby 53x13 » 21 Jul 2016, 10:22pm
For me it's got to be the greatest philosophical mind and political economist ever to be born in these Isles, Adam Smith.
Adam Smith, a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Like all great philosophical thinkers, his ideas have been purloined and twisted to fit market forces in ways that doubtless even he wouldn't recognize.
Born: June 16, 1723, Kirkcaldy
Died: July 17, 1790, Edinburgh
Influenced: Noam Chomsky, Milton Friedman, Carl Menger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Marx.
Quotes:
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. Dogs do not exchange bones with other dogs.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
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