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Adam Smith

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Noun1.Adam Smith - Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)Adam Smith - Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)
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Adam Smith and Malthus, two younger Gradgrinds, were out at lecture in custody; and little Jane, after manufacturing a good deal of moist pipe-clay on her face with slate-pencil and tears, had fallen asleep over vulgar fractions.
Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context
On the one shelf at the library he found Karl Marx, Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Mill, and the abstruse formulas of the one gave no clew that the ideas of another were obsolete.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
 
 
 
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