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Economists Paper Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland in 1723. He then left Kirkcaldy to attend Glasgow University in 1738, where he studied moral philosophy under Francis Hutcheson. In 1748 went back to Scotland with Lord Kames as his patron giving public lectures in Edinburgh. In 1751, Smith became a professor in logic, and in 1752 a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow University. One of Smiths many writings earned him a new job as a tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch. He then resigned as professor, and he and the Duke traveled in France. In 1778 he was appointed to a comfortable post as commissioner of customs in Scotland, and went to live with his mother in Edinburgh. He died there in 1790 at the age of 67. Karl Marx was born in Treves, Germany in 1818. He studied at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, and would eventually become the editor of a liberal newspaper at Cologne. His articles in this paper caused it to be covered up by the government in 1842. Marx then went on to Paris, where he came into close touch with a group of socialists. In 1845 he was driven out of France, and went to Belgium. Marx later returned to Germany and took part in the revolutionary movements there. In 1849 he was then exiled from Germany. He moved on to Paris and then to London, where he would live until his death. He spent the rest of his life in spreading his communistic views throughout his writings and by organizing political groups. In 1864 he organized the International Workingmen’s Association in which was his greatest ambition of his life. In 1869, he helped find the Social Democratic Labor party in Germany. He died in 1883 at age of 65. John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge in 1883.
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