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== About Me == |
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I'm a 15 year old student living in [[Calgary]] and i've been a wikipedia member since [[April 10th]] [[2005]]. |
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It appears somebody doesn't like me! [[User:AlbertaBeefEqualsMadCowDisease|AlbertaBeefEqualsMadCowDisease]] |
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[[Image:MeSouthPark2.JPG|thumb|South Park version of myself]] |
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== My Articles Are Biased == |
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I use Wikipedia for everything, and I feel that I should contribute to the website past spelling mistakes and general riff raff. So whatever article I write I'd appreciate it if somebody would look over it and make the proper corrections, etc. |
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== My Political Views == |
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I'm a [[conservative]]. I support the [[Conservative Party of Canada]] and have great resentment towards the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]] and the Western Alienation we face out here. My name is a reference to the "Mad Cow Crisis". |
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== Completed Articles == |
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*[[Communist Philosophy of Nature]] |
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*[[Economic Determinism]] |
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*[[Urban field]] |
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=== Worked On/Contributed To === |
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*[[Consociationalism]] |
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*[[Dualism (philosophy of mind)]] |
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*[[New Economic Policy]] |
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*[[Russian Revolution of 1917]] |
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*[[2003 invasion of Iraq]] |
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*[[Urban geography]] |
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[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:EatAlbertaBeef My Wikibook Account] |
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[http://wikisource.org/wiki/User:EatAlbertaBeef My Wikisource Account] |
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[[Category:Wikipedians in Alberta|EatAlbertaBeef]] |
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{{Otherpeople|Adam Smith}} |
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era = [[18th-century philosophy]]<br>(Modern Philosophy) | |
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name = Adam Smith| |
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birth = [[June 5]], [[1723]] (baptized) ([[Kirkcaldy]], [[Fife]], [[Scotland]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]) | |
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death = [[July 17]], [[1790]] ([[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]) | |
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school_tradition = [[Classical economics]] | |
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main_interests = [[Political philosophy]], [[ethics]], [[economics]] | |
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influences = [[Aristotle]], [[Thomas Hobbes|Hobbes]], [[John Locke|Locke]], [[Bernard de Mandeville|Mandeville]], [[Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)|Hutcheson]], [[David Hume|Hume]], [[Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], [[François Quesnay|Quesnay]] | |
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influenced = [[Thomas Malthus|Malthus]], [[David Ricardo|Ricardo]], [[John Stuart Mill|Mill]], [[John Maynard Keynes|Keynes]], [[Milton Friedman|Friedman]], [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]], [[Founding Fathers of the United States|American Founding Fathers]] | |
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notable_ideas = [[Classical economics]], modern [[free market]], [[division of labour]], [[invisible hand]]| |
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'''Adam Smith''' (baptized [[June 5]], [[1723]] – [[July 17]], [[1790]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[philosopher]] and a pioneering [[political economy|political economist]]. One of the key figures of the intellectual movement known as the [[Enlightenment]], he is known primarily as the author of two treatises: ''[[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]]'' (1759), and ''[[The Wealth of Nations|An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations]]'' (1776). The latter was one of the first examples of applying analysis and historical study to economics in [[Europe]], lending support to the idea of expanding individual freedoms and the concept of the [[social contract]] and [[natural rights]]. Smith's work also helped to create the modern academic discipline of [[economics]] as well as provide academic justification to [[capitalism]], [[free trade]] and [[libertarianism]]. |
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==Intellectual Contribution== |
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Smith contended that economic liberty was the keystone to a sound economy. He claimed that the intention of production was consumption and therefore an increase in production raised the standard of living. Self-interested people, Smith believed, sought to earn wealth by enriching others this way and in turn compete to produce the best product. The appropriate price for a good determined to be somewhere between what a producer is willing to sell it for and what a consumer is willing to pay. Smith described this as the "invisible hand" that guided the market and led it to greater wealth and enrichment. |
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{{Cquote2|Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so. |[[Adam Smith]]|''[[The Theory of Moral Sentiments]]''}} |
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[[Image:Adam Smith.jpg|right|thumb|Adam Smith]] |
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===Free Trade=== |
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At the time of the publication of Adam Smith's works the nations of Europe had adopted the philosophy of [[mercantilism]]. Each nation sought to encourage exports and discourage imports in an effort to expand national coffers and protect domestic jobs by enacting regulations, tariffs and restrictions on industry. Smith rebutted this system by contending that greater economic growth could be found in free trade between nations. Each nation should produce the goods in which it had the greatest [[comparative advantage]], and in turn import the goods that would be more expensive to produce itself. Smith said that if such a system of economic freedom was embraced by government the highest quality, lowest cost products would be made available. |
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===Role of Government=== |
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While rejecting the interference of government in trade between nations and the operation of business' with his theory of "[[laissez-faire]]" (let them do),Smith felt the government still had an important task to manage. His economic structure required a complex system of [[private property]] that the government, acting in everyone's interest, is obliged to protect. The government should also be obliged to provide services that the private sector would be "unlikely" to participate in, such as the construction of roads, the construction of schools and the maintenance of a military. |
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