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525. In Search of the Real Adam Smith

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Adam Smith and the University of Oxford

Adam Smith thrived at the University of Glasgow studying moral philosophy under Francis Hutchinson. Upon graduation, he won a scholarship to Bailleel College at Oxford University in England. But Smith disliked almost everything about Oxford, especially the professors whom he found both haughty and lazy. He also disliked Oxford because he was made to feel like a country bumpkin.

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