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Adam Smith was born in 1723 in Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland. His father, who had held the post of "comptroller of customs" at Kirkaldy, died some six months before his birth. His mother, Margaret Douglas, came from a family of substantial landowners.
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His father died before he was born, and Adam Smith was reared by his mother, retaining a life-long loyalty and devotion to her. He never married and spent most of his life living with and caring for his mother, who lived to be ninety.
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Marxists, with somewhat more justice, hail Smith as the ultimate inspiration of their own Founding Father, Karl Marx. Indeed, if the average person were asked to name two economists in history whom he has heard of, Smith and Marx would probably be the runaway winners of the poll.
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