Five reasons Adam Smith remains Britain's most important economist, 300 years on
- Written by Anna Plassart, Senior Lecturer in History, The Open University
June 5 2023 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith, the 18th-century British economist widely hailed as the father of modern economics.
Born in Kirkcaldy, on the east coast of Scotland, Smith studied at the University of Glasgow and at Balliol College, Oxford (which he didn’t think highly of), before becoming a professor of...