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David Hume
Title: David Hume
Category: History
Details: Words: 1678 | Pages: 7.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
David Hume
David Hume was a very intelligent man. He was a well-known Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He was one of the major intellectual figures of the eighteenth century. Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on the twenty-sixth of April, 1711:
[He] was from good family, both by father and mother: [his] father’s family is a branch of the earl of Home’s or Hume’s; and [his] ancestor’s had
been proprietors of the estate …showed first 75 words of 1678 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1678 total…that Hume had a considerable influence on Smith. Smith’s Wealth of Nations, which was the first book to concisely present free trade, was published shortly aft
Hume’s death of an incureable bowel disorder. Capitalism changed the whole world’s thinking from mercantilism to free trade. The echoes of Hume’s thoughts are heard every day in every open market, in every economics book even though it may not be attri
ted to him.
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