Adam Smith was born in 1723 in  Kirkcaldy, Scotland.

When he was young tinkers kidnapped him, but Adam was found by her uncle. Afther eleven years, in 1737, he enters in the Glasgow University, he studied moral philosophy with the professor Francis Hutcheson. Afther six years in Oxford, in 1746, Adam return to Kirkcaldy. In 1748 he was invited to lecture on belle-letters and he was jurisprudence in Endimburgh under Lord Kames. Adam Smith met David Hume, and they became close friends.

In 1751 Adam Smith was elected Professor of Logic in the Glasgow University.

In 1759 Smith published his Theory of Moral Sentiments. He became a tutor of the young Duke of Buccleuch in his big tour of europe, he met with Voltaire, Franklin and other intellectuals.

When he returned of the Grand Tour, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he began to work on the Wealth of Nations. In the same year published "The Wealth of Nations"

In 1778 he moved back to live in Endinburg with his mother. Five years after he became a member of the Royal Society of Endinburgh.

In 1790 Adam Smith died after a painful illnes, he was buried in the Canonatge cementery in Endinburgh's Royal Mile.