How Did Adam Smith Impact On Society

Adam Smith was a moral philosopher who established a baseline for all contemporary discussions on how wealth is amassed and what the effects are on society. Adam Smith knew that in the late eighteenth century for many people, they worked for wages that would barely enable them to survive. Since his focus was on the economics of the city in relation to that of the countryside, Mr. Smith did not make any comments on international trade. Smith went as far to say that people would do more good if they were not set out to do so. On another hand, Mr. Smith made an observation that when a political system was dominated by business interests the needs of the public may be ignored in the rush to use the political system to make money other than better