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  Adam Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Smith now began to give more attention to jurisprudence and economics in his lecture and less to his theories of morals.
At the end of 1763 Smith obtained a lucrative post as tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch and resigned his professorship.
From 1764-66 he traveled with his pupil, mostly in France, where he came to know such intellectual leaders as Turgot, Jean D'Alembert, André Morellet, Helvétius and, in particular, Francois Quesnay, the head of the Physiocratic school whose work he much respected.
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 Adam Smith, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
He returned home, and after delivering a series of well-received lectures, was made first chair of logic (1751), then chair of moral philosophy (1752), at Glasgow University.
He left academia in 1764 to tutor the young duke of Buccleuch.
For over two years they lived and traveled throughout France and into Switzerland, an experience that brought Smith into contact with contemporaries Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, François Quesnay, and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot.
www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Smith.html   (1791 words)

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