T he author of what is widely considered to be “the Bible of capitalism,” Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish philosopher and economist who pioneered modern economic theory - http://simplycharly.com/people/adam-smith/read/interviews/bound-by-the-world-order-in-which-he-lived-gavin-kennedy-on-why-adam-smith-was-a-realist-not-an-ideologue