... 1752 to the Chair of Moral Philosophy. His lectures covered the field of ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence and political economy, or "police and revenue."" He first began writing about the general harmony of human motives and activities in his work Theory of Moral Sentiments, published in 1759. Smith moved to London in 1776, where he published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which examined in detail the consequences of economic ... at Bonn and later in Berlin, where he read law, majoring in history and philosophy. He concluded his university course, submitt...

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