HIST 1300 Study Guide - Ann Nelson, Get Close, Trent Affair
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He is significant because he comes up with the intellectual rationale that leads to the end of mercantilism in great britain, capitalism. One of the world"s greatest thinkers, was kidnapped by gypsies, then abandoned by gypsies, and a total nerd. Smith goes to oxford to get a phd. , graduates and then goes to edinburgh university. He becomes known to the world with his first book, the theory of moral sentiments. Townsend was important for our purposes because he gives adam smith the opportunity to write the wealth of nations. He is the chancellor of exchequer, minister of the treasury, and marries a rich widow, who has a son. Townsend decides to give her son the best education possible, and adam smith becomes his tutor. Smith hates paris and starts writing the wealth of. Wealth of nations is a book about getting governments out of economics, and laissez-faire, invisible hand, self-interest.
