MMW 14 Chapter Reading: Heilbroner -- The Wonderful World of Adam Smith

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

He was quite famous in his time. Notoriously absent minded and not very good looking. He saw order in the industrial chaos of britain during that time. He was born in a small town in scotland and went to oxford on a scholarship. Oxford wasn"t a center of learning, so he self studied. He received a call from the university of glasgow and was made chair of moral. The university of glasgow was full of the brightest minds in britain and was a true center of learning. Smith makes friends with townshend, the minister of the exchequer, and then acts as a tutor to townshend"s son and travels with him across europe. This travel was a right of passage for aristocratic boys. The social state of britain in the late 1700s. Pregnant women and small children also worked. Some other mines were kind of okay. Staffed mostly by children working 14-15 hours a day.