SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: French Revolution, Physiocracy, Human Capital
3 Dec 2016
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He was born outside of edinburgh (his house is still there) Has a calvinist (form of protestant) character to there education system. A world that stress literacy and education. Age 17 (1740): went to oxford and hated it. Said that it is a place where people drink too much and do not care about education. Age 28: became a professor and came back from oxford and gave lectures about the nature of human beings. Spends time in paris and meets the physiocrats. 1759: published his first book the theory of moral sentiments. He does not tell people how to behave but he sees human beings as part of nature and wants to know what is human passion in glasgow he taught law and course on the state. Started thinking about economic hen he left. 1764: leaves the university and becomes a private tutor to the son of the duke of buccleuch.
