亚当·斯密(Adam Smith),18世纪英国著名的经济学家和伦理学家,是现代经济学的主要创立者。其一生奉献了两部传世经典:《道德情操论》和《国富论》。后者的全称是《国民财富的性质和原因的研究》,主要探讨国民收入和财富是如何构成、增加、以及国家(或君主)的收支怎样支配是合理的。同时也成就了亚当·斯密作为“经济学之父”的不朽名声。 Adam Smith, a famous British economist and ethicist in the 18th century, is a leading founder of modern economics. In his life, he devoted two handed down classics: “moral sentiment theory” and “national wealth theory.” The full name of the latter is “the study of the nature and causes of the national wealth,” which mainly explores how the composition and increase of national income and wealth are justified and how the national (or monarch) income and expenditure are controlled. It also made Adam Smith an immortal fame as the “father of economics.”