THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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Mary Wollenstonecraft
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John Locke
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Rousseau
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Adam Smith
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was published by Adam Smith in 1776, when he was roughly fifty-three years old. Naturally, many American readers of Adam Smith’s work have been struck by the fact that The Wealth of Nations was published the same year as the Declaration of Independence.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Wealth of Nations was written by the eighteenth-century Scotsman Adam Smith, the “father of modern economics.” In addition to his importance as an economist, Adam Smith was an important figure in classical liberalism and in the Scottish Enlightenment.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, probably the most influential book on market economics ever written.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Wealth of Nations is a profoundly influential work in the study of economics and examines exactly how nations become wealthy. Adam Smith advocates that by allowing individuals to freely pursue their own self-interest in a free market, without government regulation, nations will prosper.